In the Community
We’re proud of our work in the community to help to preserve biodiversity and enhance habitats for honey bees, monarch butterflies, and all species.
Our Programs & Partners
Bayer is collaborating with conservation groups, academic experts, farmers and government agencies across North America to enhance habitat for honey bees, monarch butterfly and other pollinators by finding meaningful and proactive ways to help all pollinators thrive. Through these partnerships, Bayer can have a larger impact with on-the-ground habitat projects and more efficiently move the conservation needle.
Helping pollinators – like honey bees and monarch butterflies – has other benefits too as good pollinator habitat can have broad conservation and land stewardship benefits including supporting multiple other insects, birds, and mammals while improving soil structure, water infiltration, and decreasing field run-off to local water bodies.
Learn more about how Bayer and our partners are achieving more with an “All-Hands-on-Deck” approach to conservation!
What: Dedicated to sustaining, restoring and enhancing the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants and habitats for current and future generations.
Our Commitment: $5.85M since 2015
Accomplishment*: Total Projects: 156; Acres restored or enhanced: 416,000; Pounds of milkweed seeds collected: 3,400; Native milkweed seedlings propagated: 1.1M; Workshops or meetings hosted: 1,800.
What: Production of milkweed plugs provided to school/education project and restoration projects through an application process.
Our Commitment: >$1.57M since 2015
Accomplishment: >690K milkweed plugs produced and distributed.
What: Provide pollinator seed and habitat establishment support free or at reduced cost to landowners with >2 acres of need and located in the Upper Midwest.
Our Commitment: $1.2M since 2017
Accomplishment*: Projects: >500; Acres of habitat established: 7,831; Milkweed seeds planted: 20M.
What: Bayer is working with Pheasants and Quail Forever, and other partners, on several programs focused on establishing upland blooming habitat through classroom, youth, and community engagement.
Our Commitment: $925k since 2015
Accomplishment*: 650 Projects; 1,161 Habitat acres; 58k Participants; >50k Milkweed plugs planted.
What: Planting of cover crops to increase the density, diversity, and duration of bee forage in California orchards, farms, and vineyards, while improving soil health.
Our Commitment: $1.1M since 2015
Accomplishment*: Participants: 2,079; Cover Crop Acres Established: 103,000.
What: Industry-wide collaboration to ensure consistent messaging and provide resources to the agricultural community regarding monarch recovery efforts & habitat creation.
Our Commitment: >$330k since 2015
Accomplishment*: Farmers For Monarchs website, social media and communication strategy launched targeted for farmers, ranchers and landowners.
What: Launched California Working Lands Free Seed Program to provide technical assistance, milkweed plugs, and a regionally specialized seed mix for private working lands in California’s Central Valley.
Our Commitment: $180k since 2021
Accomplishment*: Over the past 4 years we have worked in partnership on 184 projects enhancing 2,427 acres and restoring 468 acres of pollinator habitat in California and southern Oregon.
What: Scientific studies of best vegetation management practices to improve pollinator and wildlife habitat on rights-of-way and natural areas.
Our Commitment: >$700k since 2015
Accomplishment: Over 30 case study sites on rights-of-way, golf courses, farms and rangeland in partnerships with landowners used for educational outreach and training.
What: Development of app to give farmers, ranchers, landowners and private citizens an easy-to-use tool to record data about their habitat conservation efforts.
Our Commitment: $100K
Accomplishment: Documented 1,868 additional acres of pollinator habitat including 131,000 milkweed stems.
What: Bayer is working with partners on a project funded by the NRCS Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) in Missouri that will highlight the interdependence of agriculture and conservation by providing cost-sharing opportunities for producers to use precision data to establish field boarders, streambank buffers or pollinator habitat on their farms.
Our Commitment: $175k since 2022
Accomplishment*: First plantings started in 2023 and pollinator monitoring on sites began in summer 2024. With 16 participating landowners enrolling around 500 acres of pollinator habitat in both fields and buffers.
What: We’re a member of the Honey Bee Health Coalition. It brings together beekeepers, growers, researchers, government agencies, agribusinesses, conservation groups, manufacturers, and consumer brands to improve the health of honey bees.
Our Commitment: 1.05M since 2013
Accomplishment*: Driving honey bee health through initiatives around four main pillars: Hive Management, Habitat & Nutrition, Crop Pest Management, and the Bee Integrated Demonstration Network.
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What: Wildflower seeds distributed, habitat establishment, and consumer awareness campaign.
Our Commitment: $12M from 2015 to 2021
Accomplishment: >3.5 billion pollinator seeds distributed. Habitat projects planted in all 50 states.
What: For over 30 years, Bayer has worked with the Wildlife Habitat Council to drive conservation activities on our corporate lands. Partnering with WHC, Bayer provides employee education, training, and awareness around our collective conservation activities across our sites.
Accomplishment: Currently, within the WHC program, Bayer has 41 total certified sites. Eight of which have completed additional conservation activities to accomplished silver or gold level certifications.
*Bayer is one of several partners contributing to these accomplishments.