A SCOTTISH charity has been awarded 340,000 to help save the bumblebee, whose estimated worth to the UK economy is about 4 million.
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BCT), based at Stirling University, aims to use the lottery grant to help reverse the serious decline in the bee population, and stave off extinction.
By pollinating hundreds of species of flowers and plants, inc
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luding raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes and vegetables, bumblebees contribute an estimated 4m a year to the economy. However, in the past 70 years there has been a dramatic decrease
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