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Knokke-Heist Town
Knokke-Heist
Knokke-Heist, a prominent Belgian coastal town, has partnered with BeeOdiversity for 10 years to preserve the environment while balancing tourism, agriculture, and local economies. The BeeOmonitoring project uses bees as natural drones to collect pollen, serving as bioindicators to map biodiversity and monitor pollution levels across five strategic areas. This data includes agricultural and industrial pollutants and assesses biodiversity, identifying risks like invasive species and the loss of plant diversity. With expert recommendations, the municipality takes targeted action and engages local communities in workshops to adopt better environmental practices.
The BeeOmonitoring project in Knokke-Heist addressed heavy metal pollution and excessive pesticide use, leading to reduced pollution, 80% less pesticide use, and increased biodiversity. BeeOdiversity supported farmers with sustainable practices, while 20 flower meadows and educational routes boosted public awareness. The collaboration enhanced the region's appeal to residents and tourists.
Although pollution and lack of biodiversity constitute operational, reputational, environmental and financial risks for many sectors it remains difficult for many actors to take improvement actions amongst others due to a lack of metrics. The BeeOmonitoring combines nature (bees acting as drones to collect billions of environmental samples on large surfaces) and technology (software processing the data). Through the analysis of the samples, BeeOdiversity can identify, find the origin and assess the level of pollutants (heavy metals, 523 pesticides, nitrates, PAH, dioxins, etc.) and assess plant diversity level and quality. The BeeOmonitoring enables to (i) monitor industrial and agricultural pollution, (ii) assess the quality/diversity of plants, (iii) take targeted improvement decisions and (iv) implement adapted actions to enhance biodiversity. No other method can monitor so many pollutants and provide biodiversity metrics (on-site) as efficiently.
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