Botanical Garden

BOTANICAL GARDEN

Center for the well – Being and study of the Bees

BeeRing Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in Vero Beach, Florida, with the only purpose of understanding and mitigating the growing threat and disappearance of the bees and other pollinators around the world. BeeRing has two fundamental missions: 1) Promoting people’s awareness on the conservation of bees and their crucial role in human life and the planet’s ecosystem. 2) Conducting and facilitating noninvasive research on bees going from basic studies on mechanisms of communication and behavior, to applied studies on bee breeding and colony supervision.

To fulfill our missions that we have designed. We are currently fabricating bee sanctuaries via modular hexagonal-shaped huts (labeled as BeeRing) housing as many as 30 bee natural habitats to conduct not only educational/awareness events allowing also contemplative activities inside the BeeRing, but also research work as each individual habitat is equipped with noninvasive sites to install acoustic and sensing devices, such as miniature microphones, thermocouples, and hygrometers. Our first BeeRing prototype was built in Vero Beach, Florida, recently we built a fully functional BeeRing in Jardines de Mexico, the largest botanical garden in Mexico, located in Cuernavaca. A botanical garden would be a perfect place to house a BeeRing and play a unique role on not only promoting people’s awareness on the conservation of the bees but also performing crucial studies and research work on them. We must remember the initial commitment of the garden about the conservation of pollinators, such as bees and butterflies. In the garden effort to keep the biodiversity of the region alive to the future generations.

Botanical gardens around the world are missing the key protagonists, the bees, essential not only to the sustainability and wellbeing of countless ecosystems but also to human food production, they pollinate 1 in 3 bites of food we eat. • Botanical gardens need to become sanctuaries for the bees as their habitats would be in a protected site and the nectar source would be inherently abundant, and most importantly free of pesticide. • A single BeeRing can not only house as many as thirty natural habitats equipped with noninvasive devices to conduct research but also be used to conduct contemplative and educational indoor activities. • BeeRing visitors would be motivated to safeguarding the environment, and securing food justice through education, research, habitat creation, and advocacy

The BeeRing aims to build interconnected multifunctional centers globally to:

• Promote awareness in people about the importance of bees.

• Inspire individuals and communities to act as advocates for the well-being of the bees and their natural environment.

• Perform didactic sessions to students and botanical garden visitors to promote the understanding of the bees in our world.

• Carry out research work on bees in their natural and commercial habitat (beekeeping). • Facilitate researchers around the world to carry out studies in the BeeRing and share results.

• Investigate alternatives to produce honey in a sustainable way and in a habitat like the natural one.