Final plea for increased biological diversity: Germany takes action!
On Monday, October 20, 2025, the Germany Buzzes! planting competition for wild bees and insects kicks off and runs until Thursday, November 4, 2025. This nationwide event invites participants to showcase their nature-friendly gardens, urban spaces, and natural areas that support wild bees and other insects.
To participate, individuals, kindergartens, schools, clubs, and companies are encouraged to register their entries across 19 nature-related categories. This involves submitting photos, descriptions, or documentation demonstrating their efforts to create habitats or plant native flowers beneficial to wild bees and insects.
The competition offers attractive prizes for winners, who focus on planting a diverse array of native flowering plants that bloom throughout the season, creating nesting or shelter opportunities, and demonstrating ecological benefits such as supporting rare or local wild bee species. Clear, compelling documentation or visual evidence of the planting project's impact is also crucial.
As the competition aims to promote awareness and conservation of wild pollinators, which differ from managed honeybees and require distinct habitat conditions, thoughtful, ecologically sound planting projects will boost participants' chances.
The Foundation for Man and Environment is hosting the competition, with more information and participation conditions available at www.wir-tun-was-fuer-bienen.de. Participants can also find free materials on the Germany buzzes! website, including planting lists, guides, tips for designing a nature-friendly balcony, and promotional materials to support their public relations efforts.
A special highlight this year is the "My Garden Paradise" photo competition, which values action and celebration photos as much as the planting action itself, as they help to spread enthusiasm to others. The jury appreciates the pictures as much as the planting action, as they help to inspire others.
Julia Sander, head of the Germany buzzes! planting competition, encourages immediate action, such as planting native wildflowers, setting up nesting aids, creating a watering hole, or integrating dead wood.
The endangerment of many insect species is mainly due to the loss of nesting sites and the shrinking of their food sources. By participating in the Germany Buzzes! competition, you can contribute to the conservation of wild bees, butterflies, and other insects, and help create valuable habitats for these essential pollinators.
Previous competition entries are available online at wettbewerb.wir-tun-was-fuer-bienen.de for inspiration. Don't miss out on this opportunity to make a difference and win attractive prizes. Stay tuned for more updates on the competition's official platforms or the event site as the opening date approaches.
- To enhance the chances of winning in the Germany Buzzes! planting competition, participants should focus on environmental science, specifically creating diverse arrays of native flowering plants that cater to wild bees and insects, as well as providing nesting or shelter opportunities.
- Beyond the planting competition, participants can also participate in the "My Garden Paradise" photo competition, which values pictures that inspire and showcase lifestyles promoting home-and-garden practices that support wild pollinators.
- By taking part in the Germany Buzzes! competition, individuals contribute to the conservation of endangered insect species like wild bees, butterflies, and others, as they work to reverse the loss of their nesting sites and diminishing food sources.
