{"id":771,"date":"2026-09-15T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:16:40","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The association IG Wilde Biene"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: The blue mason bee (Osmia caerulescens) is a frequent occupant of nesting aids. Only the female shows the blue metallic sheen that gave this small species its name. The green compound eyes, in turn, are characteristic of the males (photo: \u00a9 J\u00fcrg Sommerhalder).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

The non-profit association IG Wilde Biene was founded on 29 June 2020 and is based in Zurich. Through a range of projects it works for the conservation of wild bees throughout Switzerland. It also seeks to play an active part in improving the scientific record on the occurrence and way of life of native wild bee species.<\/p>\n

Registered office:<\/strong>
Verein IG Wilde Biene
Langstrasse 62
8004 Z\u00fcrich
Switzerland<\/p>\n

Committee:<\/strong>
Andr\u00e9 Rey<\/a> (President)
Esther Vogel<\/a> (Vice-President & Treasurer)
Philipp Noger<\/a> (Secretary)
Ayaka G\u00fctlin<\/a> (Member)
Florence Gilli\u00e9ron<\/a> (Member)
Rebekka Moser<\/a> (Member)<\/p>\n

Further staff:<\/span><\/strong>
J\u00fcrg Sommerhalder<\/a> (Managing Director)
Petra Greykowski<\/a> (Fundraising)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Contact: verein@igwildebiene.ch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Here you will find the statutes of the association IG Wilde Biene<\/a>.
Support IG Wilde Biene with a donation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

A note on copyright:<\/strong>
All content on this website (graphics, texts, photographs) was either produced by IG Wilde Biene itself or made available to IG Wilde Biene by the authors named in each case, for use in the course of its work. Redistribution without the express permission of the rights holder is not permitted. On request, however, IG Wilde Biene will gladly provide text and image material free of charge \u2014 just write to us!<\/a> <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-771","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/igwildebiene.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}