Pollinator biodiversity includes far more than managed honey bees. FAO reports that more than 200,000 animal species act as pollinators and that most are wild. These species support food security and ecosystems, but habitat loss and climate change create risks that one farm or beekeeper cannot solve alone.
Protection therefore needs collaboration among farmers, communities, scientists and governments. FAO supports environmental law, policy guidance and pollinator-friendly farming in several countries. Monitoring should cover different pollinator groups because honey-bee numbers alone cannot represent the biodiversity of butterflies, birds, bats and thousands of wild bee species. Pollinator protection works across species, sectors and borders. Coordination matters because practical action in law, farming and habitat management affects different parts of the same connected ecological system over a long period.