At the Wiltshire Bee and Honey Day 2021 our UK ecologist Dr. Guy Parker gave a fascinating talk about how solar farms can maximize biodiversity to provide habitats to help pollinators like bees and butterflies.

Click on the links below to watch the recordings of the talk, which has been split into shorter segments according to theme:

• Reasons for the decline in bee populations

• Solar farm benefits for pollinators

• Carbon sequestration and other benefits

• Monitoring progress at solar farms

• Potential country-wide benefits of solar farms

A new academic study has also just been published by a research team from the University of Lancaster and University of Reading, showing the economic benefits that hosting beehives on solar farms can bring. It estimates they could raise the value of crops grown nearby by millions of pounds each year! Read more.