MyHONEY sponsorship

BeeFive: approx. 60,000 new employees:inside.

90% of global food production is made up of plants – 71% of which rely on pollination by bees. But as bees become increasingly extinct and biodiversity dwindles, the first losses in agriculture and the environment are already evident. It is time to protect bees in order to preserve the natural cycle of agriculture.

With the mission to increase the bee population in Germany and to give numerous colonies a new home, BIO beekeeper Rico Heinzig has launched MyHoney. To further expand the population, the beekeeper offers hive sponsorships for companies. The care, maintenance and honey harvest remain in the experienced hands of the beekeeper: everything BIO-certified, ecological and sustainable. With around 200 bee colonies, some agricultural areas in the greater Dresden area are already pollinated. Now 60,000 BeeFive employees are also part of it!

Saving the environment and biodiversity on our own doorstep: With BeeFive we support this and thus do something good for the environment in Germany, too. With our sponsorship of around 60,000 hard-working BeeFive employees, we are playing an active role. What they have already achieved? You can see that here in our dashboard:

Hydroelectric project,                                                            Honduras and Nicaragua

Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans lie the coastal plains and rugged mountain ranges of the three Central American countries of Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua. This border region is highly underdeveloped and characterized by poverty.

The Guacamaya Program takes advantage of the region’s abundant hydrological resources by installing small river systems to channel water through turbines and generate electricity. A number of small systems under this project provide clean electricity to remote communities in the region, enabling the development and maintenance of local infrastructure. With an installed capacity of up to 15 MW, the hydropower plants use modern technology that is adapted to local conditions and can be fully operated and managed by the communities. Strict monitoring and reporting requirements also ensure minimal environmental impact.

These projects strengthen the labor market in the border region and improve education by introducing modern technologies. Among other things, the program has already enabled the construction of a school center in the community of El Salto, Honduras, and its connection to the newly constructed electricity grid. In addition, reforestation and afforestation measures have been initiated.

UN Sustainable Growth Goals

Borneo Rainforest

REDD+ Project

Deforestation is the cause with the second largest impact on climate change after fossil fuel burning. Since 1973, the island of Borneo has lost over 400,000 hectares (4,000 square kilometers) of rainforest. Nearly half of Borneo’s forest loss since 2000 has been due to palm oil plantations, for which rainforests across Indonesia have been destroyed.

This project is saving 64,500 hectares of carbon-rich peat swamp forests with high biodiversity in lowland Borneo from conversion to palm oil plantations that surround the entire project area. In addition, local communities are supported through training in sustainable agriculture, and biodiversity and wildlife habitat are protected.

In total, more than 120 threatened and endangered species live in the project area, including the endangered Bornean orangutan. The project also supports more than 10,000 forest-dependent community members living in and along the project’s boundaries, who traditionally had no tenure rights and used the forest in unsustainable ways. The project is accredited by the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS).

UN Sustainable Growth Goals