 In 2006 the bumblebee researcher Dave Goulson founded a registered charity , the Bumblebee Conservation Trust , to prevent the extinction " of any of the UK 's bumblebees . " In 2009 and 2010 , the Trust attempted to reintroduce the short @-@ haired bumblebee , Bombus subterraneus , which had become extinct in Britain , from the British @-@ derived populations surviving in New Zealand from their introduction there a century earlier . From 2011 the Trust , in partnership with Natural England , Hymettus and the RSPB , has reintroduced short @-@ haired bumblebee queens from Skåne in southern Sweden to restored flower @-@ rich meadows at Dungeness in Kent . The queens were checked for mites and American foulbrood disease . Agri @-@ environment schemes spread across the neighbouring area of Romney Marsh have been set up to provide over 800 hectares of additional flower @-@ rich habitat for the bees . By the summer of 2013 , workers of the species were found near the release zone , proving that nests had been established . The restored habitat has produced a revival in at least five " Schedule 41 priority " species : the ruderal bumblebee , Bombus ruderatus ; the red @-@ shanked carder bee , Bombus ruderarius ; the shrill carder bee , Bombus sylvarum ; the brown @-@ banded carder bee , Bombus humilis and the moss carder bee , Bombus muscorum . 
