Members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) marked the United Nation's (UN) Bee Day with pollinator stall at Oswestry Market on Saturday.

The group aimed to tell members of the public about the steep decline of bee numbers and all insect pollinators who are necessary for food production.

The work of Extinction Rebellion has seen the environment rise to the top of the political agenda, but they say there is more to it than greenhouse gases and climate change.

Sophie Hughes-Saunier, event coordinator from Extinction Rebellion Oswestry said: "We aim to promote wildlife friendly gardening, organic produce and talk about how XR can lobby local and national government to protect nature by not using chemicals and allowing wildlife habitat to grow without being unnecessarily cut.

"We can also gauge interest in wildflower, tree, hedge and edible planting events in the future."

The stall included free pollinator friendly flower posters and home grown plants, bee ID sheets, wild flower seeds, bug hotel materials and other hands-on art activities for all ages.

Jonjo Evans, event coordinator from Extinction Rebellion Oswestry added: "We seriously need to help our pollinators, without which so much of our food is unsustainable – 75 per cent of all food is pollinated by bees alone!

"This is beyond politics, it is about how our food is produced. Imagine how complicated food production would be without pollinators, every flower would have to be poked with a cotton bud, or similar, and then poke another flower and on and on.

"Pollinators do that for us while we sleep, work, live, without us even noticing. What if they didn't?"