RestPoll: Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches

Pollinators play a critical role in maintaining biodiversity and supporting food production. However, the decline in wild pollinator populations has raised concerns about the resilience of ecosystems and agricultural systems.

RestPoll is a highly transdisciplinary project aiming to provide society with tools to reverse wild pollinator declines and to position Europe as a global leader in pollinator restoration. RestPoll will, together with stakeholders ranging from individual land managers to governments, co-design, evaluate, and refine measures and cross-sectoral approaches to restore pollinators and their services. Stakeholders along the food value chain will be engaged through newly developed participatory approaches at diverse social, ecological, and political scales.

Central to RestPoll is the establishment of a Europe-wide network of pollinator restoration case-study areas and Living Labs (LL), which are unique hubs for experimentation, demonstration, and mutual learning. RestPoll aims to position Europe as a global leader and set the future agenda for pollinator restoration worldwide. The transdisciplinary RestPoll consortium will develop, test, evaluate and refine cross-sectoral pollinator restoration approaches to conserve biodiversity and benefit nature and society.