10% of Europe’s bee species at risk
The first ever assessment of all 1,965 species of bees found across Europe found 9.2% were threatened with extinction, while the situation was even worse for bumblebees, with a quarter at risk of dying out.
Seven species were at the highest level of risk, critically endangered, with three of the bees found only in Europe, while 46 were endangered and 24 were vulnerable to extinction, the assessment found.
