Today, on the 50th anniversary of the Earth Day, Google has dedicated its doodle to one of the smallest and most critical organisms of the earth- THE BEES.

To mark this year’s Earth Day, Google partnered with The Honeybee Conservancy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting bees, to construct an interactive Doodle that features a bee going about its important business of pollinating flowers. Users can use their keyboard mouse to navigate the bee from flower to flower, pollinating flowers and unlocking cool facts about bees and their importance to sustaining life on Earth.

Guillermo Fernandez founded The Honeybee Conservancy in 2009 to help save bees and to help underserved communities produce healthy food and build green spaces. Bees pollinate about 30% of the food we eat, but a quarter of the 4,000 bee species native to North America are at risk of extinction, Fernandez wrote in a Google blog post highlighting bees’ vital role in a healthy ecology.

“On a larger scale, the world’s survival depends on theirs,” wrote Fernandez, who serves as the organization’s executive director.

“Today’s Doodle also reminds us all of how small actions performed by individuals everywhere add up to big results. And while beekeeping may be not be for everyone, there are so many easy ways to help save bees, even while social distancing in today’s world,” he adds.

The idea for ‘Earth Day’ was birthed by Gaylord Nelson, a US senator from Wisconsin. It was first celebrated on April 22, 1970, when around 20 million Americans took to the streets across the country for a healthy and sustainable environment.

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