The Wheen Bee Foundation is Australia’s leading not-for-profit charity that promotes awareness of the importance of bees to improve food security, increase biodiversity and create healthy ecosystems.

When it comes to protecting plants and people, pollinators play a vital role and one that’s often misunderstood at best or entirely overlooked at worst.

The Wheen Bee Foundation raises vital funds for projects and programs that address the national and global threats to bees. As of 2025, the Foundation leads more than 20 programs including the Australian Pollination Strategy, Bee Friendly Farming, Australian Pollinator Week, World Bee Day and the Powerful Pollinators Planting Guides.

Perhaps the most important program run by the Foundation when it comes to gardeners is the Powerful Pollinators Planting Guides.

This program helps to increase the prevalence, health and diversity of pollinators in the landscape with guides that support landowners and land managers attract and retain pollinators on their property year-round. The guides include tips on selecting the right native plants, on creating habitats for pollinators, improving habitat connectivity and reducing chemical use.

Since the program started in 2019, the Wheen Bee Foundation has published 34 individual regional guides, which span bioregions in eight states and territories from as far afield as the Hunter Valley NSW, Swan River WA, Townsville QLD, in Tasman Norfolk Island and Southern Ranges TAS.

Each guide is funded by local communities and developed by experienced botanists and field ecologists.

The guides are available to download for free from the Wheen Bee Foundation website.