Mathew Willey Wants to Paint 50,000 Bees on Walls Around the World to Help Save Them

One man is making quite the buzz with his original take on spreading awareness

about bees. Mathew Willey, founder of The Good of the HiveInitiative, is making it his personal mission to hand paint 50,000 images of honeybees around the world in a total of 50 murals. Willey picked 50,000 as a goal because that’s the number of bees it takes for a healthy hive to operate and thrive. Willey’s objective is to raise awareness about the population decline of honeybees while celebrating their unique behavioral traits that make them so essential for our ecosystem to survive and thrive.

This activist artist has already painted around 1,000 honeybees in various places like Florida, Seattle and over at the Burt’s Bees headquarters in Durham, North Carolina. Given the intricacy and beauty of these murals, we can only imagine the powerful impact they have had on the places where they appear.

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