This week's Website of the Week is Plan Bee (www.co-operative.coop/planbee) - a campaign to increase bee populations that is supported by the Co-operative.

If you would like to nominate a national, regional or local site with an environmental flavour please contact wow@yhref.org.uk.

More about Plan Bee

Together we can help make 2010 the year that bees make their big comeback. Through Plan Bee we’re introducing lots of new ideas, activities and initiatives designed to give the bees a fighting chance.

Plan Bee activity in 2010

1. The Co-operative will continue raise awareness about honeybees and their recent decline.
2. A further £160,000 has been made available to support research into the demise of the honeybee. This is in addition to £150,000 committed to research in 2009.
3. The Co-operative Food will continue with its temporary prohibition on the use of six of the neonicotinoid pesticides on own-brand fresh and frozen produce, which was introduced in 2009.
4. The Co-operative Farms is in the second year of a three year trial to develop a wildflower seed mix that will be planted alongside crops on our farms.
5. The Co-operative will continue to support its members and customers to become bee-friendly gardeners, with advice and tips, through the Plan Bee campaign.
6. In 2009, The Co-operative gave away over 300,000 packets of seeds to members and customers. More packets of wildflower seeds will be given away in 2010.
7. The Co-operative will continue to make available discounted bee boxes which provide shelter for solitary bees.
8. The Co-operative will continue to support its members to find out more about amateur beekeeping. In 2010, we will have urban beekeeper training projects in Manchester, London and Scotland.
9. The Co-operative Farms is again inviting beekeepers to establish hives on its farms.
10. The Co-operative will continue to promote the two documentaries we produced about ‘What’s happening to bees in the UK’ and ‘The Co-operative’s Plan Bee’. We'll also continue to support the film documentary ‘Vanishing of the Bees’, released in UK cinemas in 2009.

For more information please visit:

www.co-operative.coop/ethicsinaction/takeaction/planbee/