ALLIANCE and The World Bee Project : Honey Authenticity Showcase
ALLIANCE is a three-year project funded by the European Union flagship research and innovation programme Horizon Europe.
Volume Group appointed Innovation Partner of The World Bee Project
The opportunity to be an Innovation Partner of The World Bee Project CIC (WBP) is an exciting addition to the company’s ESG commitments.
The World Bee Project has been selected by Atlas of the Future
The World Bee Project has been selected by Atlas of the Future as one of the "25 projects that can save the world”: READ MORE HERE >
The European Bee Award 2022 winners are ‘Veitshöchheimer Hempmix’ and ‘IT Beekeeping by AmoHive’
In an award ceremony hosted by MEP Franc Bogovič at the European Parliament in Brussels, the IX edition of the European Bee Award rewarded a wildflower mixture for biogas production and a beehive monitoring system. Brussels 7th December 2022 – The European Bee Award...
Helping support The World Bee Project – CAKE launches their new “Flower Power Limited Edition”
CAKE, the multi-award-winning Swedish maker of premium lightweight, zero emission electric motorcycles, has launched the Flower Power Limited Edition to support global bee & pollinator populations and raise awareness. CAKE’s Flower Power Limited Edition models are...
World Bee Day 2022: Understanding what makes our fuzzy friends buzz as pollinators
Friday May 20th is World Bee Day 2022! Did you know that bees play an essential role in global agriculture, pollinating one-third of the global food supply? Or that of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world's population, bees pollinate 70%? Despite this,...
The World Bee Project, University of Reading, BeeHero and Oracle for Research enable sustainable crop pollination
April 22nd is Earth Day! Earth Day 2022 consists of many events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org, with the year’s theme being ‘Invest In Our Planet’. This time the focus is on business and political climates, and securing new funding for a green and prosperous...
The World Bee Project speaking at Crops, Seeds & Soil Tech (CSS) 4
The World Bee Project speaking at Crops, Seeds & Soil Tech (CSS) 4, virtual international conference held by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), Soil Association, Innovation...
Tomorrow Transformed
A recent video featured on the CNN ‘Tomorrow Transformed’ series featured The World Bee Project AI-driven work addressing pollinator health and the agri-food sector worldwide.
ATLAS OF THE FUTURE
The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the world.
‘She’s a Keeper’
Training women all over the world in sustainable beekeeping to improve income, independence and well-being.
PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
The World Bee Project CIC collaborates with pollinator monitoring kingpin BeeHero to increase AI monitored hives in its World Hive Network to 50,000 and help smallholder farmers to pollinate and prosper.
WORLD BEE DAY 2020
The World Bee Project launched the World Bee Count 2020 on 20 May with the aim of amplifying the importance of pollinators through social media sharing. People everywhere were invited to take a picture of the nearest pollinator they could find and upload it to an interactive Global Pollinator Map, using a free mobile World Bee Count app.
World Bee Day: How to collect big data (on tiny creatures)
The World Bee Project and Oracle are working together to study the secret life of bees—and that means a network of hive sensors, AI, and some serious cloud-computing clout. As a child, Sabiha Rumani Malik would listen to the bees. She recalls hearing them buzzing...
How Artificial Intelligence, IoT And Big Data Can Save The Bees
Modern agriculture depends on bees. In fact, our entire ecosystem, including the food we eat and the air we breathe, counts on pollinators. But the pollinator population is declining according to Sabiha Rumani Malik, the founder and executive president of The World...
The World Bee Project hive network aims to be the first to track pollinators globally
Buttercups, hogweed, dandelions, and thistles might not sound delicious to you, but they are an urban bee’s delight. “Honeybees need a diverse diet,” explains Sabiha Malik, London-based founder of the World Bee Project. Why should you care about a honeybee’s diet and...
‘Emirati Queen Bee’ for UAE’s food security is here
The UAE is crossbreeding bees to develop a resilient Queen that can endure the harsh desert climate and sustain crucial pollination rates crucial for the country’s food security, Gulf News can exclusively reveal.
Saving the Bees with Big Data Analytics and AI
“If bees die out, humans have only four years to live.” This statement has been widely quoted and is often attributed to Albert Einstein, although there seems to be no evidence that he actually said it.
THE QUAICH PROJECT LAUNCHES PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WORLD BEE PROJECT CIC
The Quaich Project welcomed The World Bee Project CIC to Scotland this week, to raise awareness of the importance of bees as part of our natural ecosystem and highlight The Quaich Project’s key campaign theme, to create A Space for Nature.
ORACLE AND THE WORLD BEE PROJECT EXPAND PARTNERSHIP FOLLOWING TRIALS
Trials of ‘smart hive’ technology have enabled The World Bee Project to collect billions of data points about the health and activity of honey bees, for scientific research and conservation efforts. Oracle and The World Bee Project are set to expand their partnership...
Oracle Blockchain Verifies Real Honey
At the recent Oracle OpenWorld Dubai show, Oracle showed a demonstration of how natural Honey can be verified by blockchain. You may wonder, well, why would anyone need Honey verified by blockchain? You may be surprised to learn that Honey is one of the most...
PLUGGED IN HIVES PROVIDING INFORMATION ON BEE HEALTH
How Oracle and The World Bee Project are Using AI to Save Bees
Oracle recently announced a partnership with the World Bee Project to leverage cloud technologies to better understand the decline in bee populations globally and devise innovative strategies to help farmers manage bee and pollinator habitats. I sat down with Andy...
Tel Aviv’s Busy Data Bees Join Global Hivemind
A smart beehive on the roof of a central Tel Aviv shopping mall is part of a global pilot designed to help save the honey bee. The hive, fitted with sensors that continuously monitor temperature and moisture levels and record sound in and around the hive, is operated...
“Sweet City” Curridabat to become the Founding World Bee City
The World Bee Project is pleased to announce that it will be working together with the city council to transform Curridabat into the Founding World Bee City.
AI to help researchers stop the decline of bees
Artificial intelligence and connected beehives could help stop the decline of the honey bee with the launch of a global monitoring network to listen in to hives around the world.
Can listening to bees help save them – and us?
Can artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning help save the world's bees? That's the hope of scientists who are scrambling to reverse the dramatic declines in bee populations. Bees are in trouble, but we're not quite sure why. It could be the overuse of...
BBC RADIO FOUR – INSIDE SCIENCE
Repairing potholes, ozone hole, internet of hives, drugs from fingerprints . . .
BBC WORLD SERVICE SCIENCE IN ACTION
Why Free Movement is Crucial for Science – and how cloud-sharing data from beehives help us understand these pollinators.
SOLVING THE WORLD BEE CRISIS WITH ORACLE ANALYTICS
Bees and other insects that pollinate flowers are being driven toward extinction, according to the World Bee Project (WBP), so the global community launched a new initiative in partnership with Oracle using analytics to help slow the decline. At the "Nature of Data"...
Keeping bees buzzing . . . new technology helps to keep bees happy
Bees are critical to our continued existence. They pollinate our food, taking pollen from one plant to another, allowing them to reproduce. Without them, humanity would, quite frankly, begin to starve. So anything that helps them is welcome. A company called Oracle...
Oracle Partners with World Bee Project to Monitor World’s Declining Bee Population
Computer technology giant Oracle has partnered with the World Bee Project in the UK to monitor honey bee populations using its cloud technology platform. Starting in the UK, the initiative, dubbed The World Bee Project Hive Network, will use sensing technology to...
AI smart hives network helps conserve declining global bee population
Oracle and The World Bee Project have announced a world-first approach to understanding the declines of honey bee populations and helping protect them.
World’s first AI ‘smart hive’ launched to protect the honey bee
The World Bee Project Hive Network will use AI ‘smart hives’ to collect data on honey bees to give researchers new insights into the relationships between honey bees and their environments. Cloud company Oracle has partnered with The World Bee Project for the scheme,...
AI smart hives will help arrest the decline in bee populations, says group
Database giant Oracle and The World Bee Project have announced an initiative that aims to use advanced computing and analytics tools to better understand the decline in bee populations and help protect them, an apparent world-first. The new programme aims to use cloud...
World Bee Project launched in the UK
A global beehive monitoring network has been launched using big data analytics and cloud technology to produce the first ever global picture of the state of the world’s bee population. The World Bee Project Hive Network will eventually analyse huge amounts of data...
Can connecting beehives to the cloud save pollinators?
Behind an office building at Oracle’s U.K. headquarters in Reading, two beehives are connected to the company’s cloud. One sensor on each hive captures the sound of buzzing; one captures humidity. Another measures the weight of the honey. In total, five or six sensors...
World’s First AI Smart Hives Network Helps Conserve Declining Global Honey Bee Populations
The World Bee Project and Oracle collaborate in extraordinary marriage between nature and technology.