To reverse wild pollinator declines, habitats across Europe need to be restored. The EU-funded RestPoll project aims to provide tools that will restore pollinator populations in agricultural landscapes. Experts from various fields, including natural and social scientists, non-governmental organisations, businesses and ministries, are working together with stakeholders from individual land managers to governments to co-design, evaluate and refine measures for pollinator restoration. Central to RestPoll is the establishment and co-development of a Europe-wide network of pollinator restoration case study areas (CSA) and Living Labs (LL), which are unique hubs for experimentation, demonstration, and mutual learning for the best practice of pollinator restoration measures in Europe. Other objectives of the project are to validate context-dependence and synergistic effects of multiple restoration measures at different scales and to demonstrate how to improve benefits and co-benefits of pollinator restoration for nature and people. All this helps to support the development of pollinator-friendly policies and market conditions. Through testing co-designed, transferable tools for adaptive pollinator restoration, we will be able to engage users at local, national and European levels and reinforce the status of Europe as a global leader in adaptive management. RestPoll continuously provides open access to the existing and newly generated data, traditional and expert knowledge and tools to enable researchers and stakeholders across different scales to compare the benefits of initiatives and to priorities restoration measures and promote pollinator diversity.
