Buena Vista Township Committee has voted unanimously to become a Bee City USA®. This completed the efforts of the Environmental Commission to accomplish this certification. Bee City USA is a nonprofit national organization that galvanizes communities to sustain pollinators by providing them with healthy habitat, rich in a variety of native plants and free to nearly free of pesticides.
Imperiled pollinators like honey bees, bumble bees, butterflies, moths, bats, hummingbirds, and others are responsible for the reproduction of ninety percent of the world’s wild plant species and one in every three bites of food we consume. Buena Vista Township is the second municipality in New Jersey to become certified as a Bee community.
This certification becomes an initiative for the Environmental Commission in their goals to continue with a Silver Certification with NJ Sustainable Jersey. Buena Vista Township is the second municipality in State of New Jersey (the first in South Jersey) to become certified as a Bee community.