Bees Map
Tap any country — see managed beehive density, public bee-observation density, and one concrete next step that fits the place. Refreshed once a day from FAOSTAT, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and the World Bank Open Data API. Open data only, polite cadence, no scraping.
Opens on a country with notable managed-hive activity. Use search or the worst-list to explore your own region.
Act now — what you can do
Curated, link-out-only. Pick a country on the map to see actions tailored to its situation.
Top by indicator
Top 12 countries on the active indicator. Click a row to fly there and see actions.
How this map works
- Country shading shows live data fetched once a day:
- Managed beehives per 1,000 ha land — FAOSTAT element 5111 (live bees, beehives), normalised by country land area. Higher = more managed-hive density.
- Honey production (tonnes/year) — FAOSTAT element 5510 (natural honey). Annual reported tonnage.
- Public Apidae occurrence density — GBIF occurrence search for family Apidae, per million hectares of land. A low number in a country with high agricultural land usually reflects under-sampling, not absence.
- Agricultural land share (% of land) — World Bank AG.LND.AGRI.ZS (FAO via World Bank). Coarse proxy for pesticide and monoculture pressure.
- Click anywhere to see one concrete next step. The recommender derives a country profile from the indicators above and surfaces a use-case-matched action with named, citable organisations.
- Freshness. Indicators are pulled on a daily schedule, normalised into a single tiny payload, and served to every visitor. Your browser only ever talks to our own server for the data. We never scrape; we only consume documented public APIs at their published cadence.
- No accounts. No tracking. No upload. Outbound calls from the browser: our own server (live data + borders) and OpenFreeMap (basemap).
Sources: country borders — Natural Earth (public domain); basemap — OpenFreeMap & OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); managed beehives and honey production — FAOSTAT (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; we link out and do not redistribute as a primary product); bee-occurrence density — Global Biodiversity Information Facility Apidae (CC BY 4.0); agricultural land share — World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0); rendering — MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3); action catalog assembled from public materials of named organisations: the Xerces Society, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, the Bee Informed Partnership, the FAO Pollinators Initiative, IPBES, iNaturalist, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
National figures hide local realities. A low GBIF count for a country usually means under-sampling rather than absence; we say so on every country card.