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The Bee Squad: Boosting biodiversity in your neighbourhood
Children around Australia are taking charge. Come and join the revolution!
From the coast of Western Australia to Sydney’s suburbs, young people are discovering nature in their neighbourhoods and setting up nesting boxes for birds, cleaning up waterways, planting to attract bees and koalas, and building insect hotels. They’re learning about amazing native species and finding ways to protect them.
The Bee Squad inspires you to take part in these exciting adventures and projects that support threatened species by doing things how to put together a nature sleuth toolkitplanting to attract pollinatorsusing the tally sheet to record flora and fauna sightingsfollowing the tips to ace your wildlife photography.The best part is, you don’t need to live near a national park or protected area to get involved – you can make a difference from your balcony, backyard, local park or school.
‘Here is a book that equips young people with solid advice, knowledge and fun activities to become champions of biodiversity and helpers to Mother Nature! At a time when climate anxiety is high and children can feel helpless, Friedlander leans into action and encouragement in a book that will send kids out into the wilderness with fresh perspective and appreciation for this world of ours.’ – Danielle Binks, award-winning author
‘The Bee Squad is a must-have addition to your library of life. Everything you need to know to build a friendship, a relationship and the ultimate lifelong love affair with nature and all its beauty, and participants sharing the world with you and around you wherever you are.’ – Costa Georgiadis
‘Sustainable Schools NSW encourages a comprehensive approach to sustainability, integrating it into campus life, curriculum and school culture, which is what The Bee Squad is able to do. The Bee Squad offers diverse opportunities for teachers, students and families to nurture nature and connect with Country, to ‘bala ga lili’, fostering a love for nature. I encourage all to join The Bee Squad to become Earthcarers, creating a B & B highway across Australia. By utilising Education for Sustainability principles, The Bee Squad promotes systems thinking and future-focused learning, empowering participants to become citizen scientists. A heartfelt thanks to Judy for advancing environmental education across Australia!’ – Sue Martin, Environmental Education NSW & Sustainable Schools NSW
‘The joy of this book is that its wonders are so accessible. It will teach you to discover the magic of nature in your backyard. And the more you know, the more you will want to know, and life will never be boring again.’ – Rachel Ward, actress, director, screenwriter and regenerative farmer
‘The Atlas of Living Australia specialises in open biodiversity data, of which a large component is from citizen science. The Bee Squad citizen science chapter is a fantastic introduction to junior scientists about citizen science and the different kinds of citizen science projects and data collection tools available. It’s inspiring to read about what discoveries have already been made by students and how citizen science has enabled observations in nature to have real world impact.’ – Dr Andre Zerger, Director, Atlas of Living Australia
From the coast of Western Australia to Sydney’s suburbs, young people are discovering nature in their neighbourhoods and setting up nesting boxes for birds, cleaning up waterways, planting to attract bees and koalas, and building insect hotels. They’re learning about amazing native species and finding ways to protect them.
The Bee Squad inspires you to take part in these exciting adventures and projects that support threatened species by doing things how to put together a nature sleuth toolkitplanting to attract pollinatorsusing the tally sheet to record flora and fauna sightingsfollowing the tips to ace your wildlife photography.The best part is, you don’t need to live near a national park or protected area to get involved – you can make a difference from your balcony, backyard, local park or school.
‘Here is a book that equips young people with solid advice, knowledge and fun activities to become champions of biodiversity and helpers to Mother Nature! At a time when climate anxiety is high and children can feel helpless, Friedlander leans into action and encouragement in a book that will send kids out into the wilderness with fresh perspective and appreciation for this world of ours.’ – Danielle Binks, award-winning author
‘The Bee Squad is a must-have addition to your library of life. Everything you need to know to build a friendship, a relationship and the ultimate lifelong love affair with nature and all its beauty, and participants sharing the world with you and around you wherever you are.’ – Costa Georgiadis
‘Sustainable Schools NSW encourages a comprehensive approach to sustainability, integrating it into campus life, curriculum and school culture, which is what The Bee Squad is able to do. The Bee Squad offers diverse opportunities for teachers, students and families to nurture nature and connect with Country, to ‘bala ga lili’, fostering a love for nature. I encourage all to join The Bee Squad to become Earthcarers, creating a B & B highway across Australia. By utilising Education for Sustainability principles, The Bee Squad promotes systems thinking and future-focused learning, empowering participants to become citizen scientists. A heartfelt thanks to Judy for advancing environmental education across Australia!’ – Sue Martin, Environmental Education NSW & Sustainable Schools NSW
‘The joy of this book is that its wonders are so accessible. It will teach you to discover the magic of nature in your backyard. And the more you know, the more you will want to know, and life will never be boring again.’ – Rachel Ward, actress, director, screenwriter and regenerative farmer
‘The Atlas of Living Australia specialises in open biodiversity data, of which a large component is from citizen science. The Bee Squad citizen science chapter is a fantastic introduction to junior scientists about citizen science and the different kinds of citizen science projects and data collection tools available. It’s inspiring to read about what discoveries have already been made by students and how citizen science has enabled observations in nature to have real world impact.’ – Dr Andre Zerger, Director, Atlas of Living Australia
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Published February 1, 2025
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April 18, 2026
A very practical and informative information book aimed at primary students to encourage them to be actively involved in studying, protecting and engaging with nature in their neighbourhood. Unpacking what biodiversity is and why it so important, each chapter expands on this to include many elements such as building a biodiversity corridor, different pollinators and planting a garden to sustain them. Building homes for local creatures - insects, birds, mammals. The latter parts a strong on action covering being a citizen scientist, cooling the neighbourhood, photographic skills to capture the projects and championing the cause.
There are numerous ways of imparting the information and organise projects and results including snapshots written by children active in this field, words from other experts including First Nations Elders, stylised drawings, charts and websites to seek further information. Their are many activities ranging from building ‘bug bungalows’ and ‘bee hotels’ to encouraging the community to create a green corridor to help cool down the suburbs.
The quantity of information and density of the text could be daunting for many children but there is also great potential for it to become a guide taken up in the classroom or at home with families becoming actively involved. Many adults would learn from and benefit from the information provided.
CBCA 2026 Eve Pownall Notable title.
There are numerous ways of imparting the information and organise projects and results including snapshots written by children active in this field, words from other experts including First Nations Elders, stylised drawings, charts and websites to seek further information. Their are many activities ranging from building ‘bug bungalows’ and ‘bee hotels’ to encouraging the community to create a green corridor to help cool down the suburbs.
The quantity of information and density of the text could be daunting for many children but there is also great potential for it to become a guide taken up in the classroom or at home with families becoming actively involved. Many adults would learn from and benefit from the information provided.
CBCA 2026 Eve Pownall Notable title.
Displaying 1 of 1 review