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Your donation helps bring the native dark honey bee back to its own landscape in a genetically pure form.

Donate directly

You can make a bank transfer to our Rabobank account:

IBAN: NL45 RABO 0190 7732 19
Account holder: Stichting Het Conservatoire; Rabobank

Stichting Het Conservatoire does not have ANBI status.

Where does your donation go?

The dark honey bee (AMM, Apis mellifera mellifera) is almost extinct. We need funds to conserve it and restore it in a genetically pure form — on the mating island and in the surrounding forest.

Back to the mating island

We conserve the almost extinct AMM by restoring it in a genetically pure form on our mating island in the Zuid-Hollandse Delta.

Drones along ecological corridors

We need funding to place and care for pure AMM drones along ecological corridors.

Drone hive on stilts in the forest: a wooden log hive with a pointed roof and entrance hole — A drone hive on stilts — a ruche tronc or log hive — made by Adam Wright of custosapium.com. Pure AMM drones develop here.

How we put this into practice

We raise pure AMM drones in drone hives such as the log hive shown here, made by Adam Wright of custosapium.com. We place these hives along ecological corridors so that pure drones can spread into their surroundings.

On the mating island in the Zuid-Hollandse Delta, we restore the almost extinct AMM in a genetically pure form. Our breeding coordinator Piet Verkooijen — also a member of the NBV queen-breeding committee — safeguards the purity of the queens there.

Piet Verkooijen, the foundation’s breeding coordinator, beside the colonies on the mating island in the Zuid-Hollandse Delta — On the mating island in the Zuid-Hollandse Delta: Piet Verkooijen, our breeding coordinator and member of the NBV queen-breeding committee, beside the colonies.