Ujubee is a website dedicated to the beauty of the bee’s world: their forage, their habitats, the flowers, fellow pollinators, pollen explosions, comb structure, nesting patterns, bee behaviour… and the people who love bees and the natural world.
Please contact us at ujubeeconservation@gmail.com if you have any feedback or queries.
Meet our board members
Karolina Moon Olowsdotter
I am a Swedish/South African eco-fashion entrepreneur with roots in the world of arts and photography.
My work extends to a passion project where I rewild and rehabilitate horses to find equilibrium in a free-roaming herd-life on the sandsteppe.
In this project I work closely with nurturing the biodiversity and allowing the natural world to create its own cross-species homeostasis, simply by creating a space where the animals and plants are allowed to carry out their innate natural behaviours .
My eco-centric commitments have led me to discover the world of the wild bees of South Africa.
Wendy Annecke
For the decade before I retired, I served as the General Manager: Cape Research Centre for SANParks where the research team included botanists, soil, water and climate change specialists and landscape and marine ecologists, all of whom contributed to social-ecological systems conservation. Wild bees constitute a key component in the maintenance of healthy and biodiverse ecosystems and Ujubee contributes an essential service in safe guarding wild bees and improving our understanding of the complex inter-actions between species and their environments.
Wendy Egerton
It’s sadly self evident in 2024 that nature and wild places are being lost at an alarming rate
In many countries wild bees do not exist. We are lucky that in South Africa that they do. However without protection and vigilance this may not be the case for long.
Jenny’s work in bringing the plight of the wild bee into the public forum is vital. That is why I feel
passionate about supporting her work and by extension the preservation of the iconic wild bee
Jenny Cullinan
Jenny Cullinan is a South African wild bee conservationist and Director of Ujubee NPC. Through decades of long-term, ethical, non-invasive observation, she has pioneered Relational Research, an approach that seeks to understand wild-living bees through relationship rather than extraction or manipulation.
Her work focuses on protecting wild-living bees in their natural habitats while exploring their relationships within living systems. This has led to the development of the world’s first Wild Bee Reserve, placing wild bees at the centre of conservation and exploring how relationship with Nature can shape the future of conservation.
Jenny’s work brings together field research, conservation, writing, education, and community engagement. Through Ujubee, she is helping develop a nature-centred approach to conservation that honours the autonomy of wild bees and the living systems of which they are a part.
