{"id":10474,"date":"2019-02-12T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:48:28","slug":"save-the-bees-in-bavaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/save-the-bees-in-bavaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Bees in Bavaria!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few weeks there has been a whirlwind of advertising through banners, flyers and social media posts about saving the bees. Unless you have been living under a rock the past few years, then you will know it is common knowledge that our bees are dying out in the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>Why are bees so important?<br \/>\nThe reason why bees are so important to our ecosystem is because they pollinate our flowers. When they land on a flower, the pollen sticks to their body. When they fly away and land on the next flower they leave tiny bits of pollen &#8211; which allows our flowers to grow and produce food.<br \/>\nWithout bees we wouldn&#8217;t just have any honey, but our plants would no longer grow the food (fruit, vegetables) that we need.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/de\/biene-pollen-bl%C3%BCtenstaub-nektar-170551\/\" aria-label=\"Bee 170551 1920 350x232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10476 size-medium aligncenter\"  alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920-350x232.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920-350x232.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is Bavaria doing about it?<br \/>\nGermany is known as a very enviromentally friendly and efficient country, what with it&#8217;s renewable energy sources and bike friendly cities. And now Bavaria has made a petition &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Rettet die Bienen!<\/strong>\u00a0to help save the bees. From the 31st of January to the 13th of February German citizens have the opportunity to sign the petition in town halls.<\/p>\n<p>What will the Petition do?<br \/>\nBavaria wants to stop\/use less of pesticides which are harming the bees (not just bees, but also butterflies and other wildlife) and therefore have a more ecological agriculture. They want to increase the organic food market in the hope that it will stop the decline of the bees. More than half a million people have signed the petition and there is still one more day to go!<\/p>\n<p>I personally think that it&#8217;s great that Bavaria is really fighting for our environment (and also our food produce!) and it&#8217;s amazing to see how many people around Munich are also on board with this. My boyfriend and friends have also already signed the petition &#8211; I sadly can&#8217;t as I am not a German citizen yet (if you&#8217;ve read my other <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/how-to-apply-for-a-german-citizenship\/\">post<\/a>, you will know I have applied for a dual nationality, it&#8217;s just taking longer than planned).<\/p>\n<p>Is your country doing anything similar to create a more ecological system that we live in?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p>Larissa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920-350x232.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920-350x232.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/bee-170551_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>In the last few weeks there has been a whirlwind of advertising through banners, flyers and social media posts about saving the bees. Unless you have been living under a rock the past few years, then you will know it is common knowledge that our bees are dying out in the whole world. Why are&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/save-the-bees-in-bavaria\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":10476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117692,504067,1850,8426,337702,192256,504064,504065,504069,504070],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-bavaria","tag-current-events-in-bavaria","tag-environment","tag-germany","tag-munich","tag-petition","tag-rettet-die-bienen","tag-save-the-bees","tag-umwelt","tag-whats-happening"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10483,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions\/10483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}