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On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Veronica Brown
<info@beesabroad.org.uk> wrote:
Dear Beedata
I have uploaded the attached file to Bee Data. I would like t publicise
our Volunteer Welcome Day which is on 21st March 2010 at Stoneleigh. I was
wondering
how this will reach members and if there is any other of publicising it
via your site. First time I have visited your site, so I am unfamiliar
with the way it all works.
Many thanks for your help.
Veronica Brown
Administrator
info@beesabroad.org.uk
tel: 0117 230 0231
Registered Charity No: 1108464
mailing address: PO Box 2058, Thornbury, Bristol, BS35 9AF
Volunteer Welcome Day Announcement.doc
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Alan Worley
<alan.worley@peoplescienceandpolicy.com> wrote:
Dear Beedata
Defra has commissioned People Science and Policy Ltd and East Malling
Research to conduct a study to better understand beekeepers' husbandry
practices and how these are influenced by the advice available to them.
Beekeepers’ opinions and experiences are a very important part of the
study, which will help to improve advice and training for beekeepers,
including the work being undertaken to raise beekeeping husbandry
standards as part of Defra and Welsh Assembly Government’s Healthy Bees
Plan.
I am e-mailing in the hope that you could include a link to the study
questionnaire on your website.
www.pspq.com/beestudy
The study will be running until the end of this month.
Kind Regards
Alan
Alan Worley
Senior Project Manager
People Science and Policy Ltd
Argyle House, 29-31 Euston Road
London NW1 2SD
Tel: 020 3102 8137
www.peoplescienceandpolicy.com
Company registration no. 389160
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I would be grateful if you would advertise the
following course at Assington Mill in Suffolk (contact details below):
May 27/28 - Queen-rearing with Clive de Bruyn
Ł130 for two days, including lunch and all other refreshments
Many thanks,
Anne
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Anne Holden
ASSINGTON MILL SHORT COURSES
T: 01787 229955
M: 07770 550570
E: info@assingtonmill.com
mailto:info@assingtonmill.com
Website: www.assingtonmill.com
BROCHURE 1.doc
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Dear John,
Further to our telephone conversation here below is the piece from
“Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) “ on Bees, Bats & Frogs
dying in droves, and pesticides are implicated.
Best Wishes
David
Bees, bats & frogs dying off in droves, pesticides implicated
Five great extinction events have reshaped earth in cataclysmic ways in
the past 439 million years, each wiping out between half and 95% of
planetary life; the most recent extinction event was the killing off of
dinosaurs. Today we're living through the sixth great extinction event - a
fact of which much of the public remains unaware. According to a poll by
the American Museum of Natural History, seven in ten biologists believe
that mass extinction poses an even greater threat to humanity than the
global warming which contributes to it. It takes 10 million years to
recover from the biodiversity loss of these mass die-offs.
Whether or not they are placing their work in this longer-view context,
scientists are drawing more and more links between pesticide use and
certain clusters of wildlife die-offs. "For decades," Sonia Shah reports
in Yale's Environment 360, "toxicologists have accrued a range of evidence
showing that low-level pesticide exposure impairs immune function in
wildlife, and have correlated this immune damage to outbreaks of disease."
Amphibians were the first to start dying off - in 1998 scientists
identified the cause as a type of fungus called Batrachochytrium
dendrobatidis. Carlos Davidson, a biologist at San Francisco State
University, has studied insecticide use in the San Joaquin Valley that
shows a strong correlation between pesticides drifting into the Sierra
Nevada Mountains and declining amphibian populations. A few years’ later
America's honeybees started dying - 35% of their population has been
decimated since 2006. Many scientists have begun drawing links between the
dramatic bee die-offs, labeled Colony Collapse Disorder, and a group of
pesticides known as neonicotinoids.
Bats are the most recent victims: in 2006 the first cave floors were found
covered with dead bats in the Northeast. White Nose Syndrome, the
fungus-related disease that killed them, has killed at least 1 million
bats since then. As with the fungus that's killing amphibians, some
scientists think that that bats are more susceptible to the fungus because
their immune systems may be weakened by pesticide exposure. Bats are
particularly vulnerable because even low levels of pesticides can
accumulate over of their long life spans. While there might be "too many
different pesticides, lurking in too many complex, poorly understood
habitats to build definitively damning indictments," the growing body of
evidence points increasingly towards pesticides - even at so-called "safe
levels" - as the cause of these and other problems for wildlife.
shareMORE Center for Biological Diversity | Digg This
GMOs cause organ failure in mammals
A ground-breaking study in the International Journal of Biological Studies
links three common varieties of Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) corn
to liver and kidney toxicity and clearly illustrates the need for
independent research on GMOs' health effects. As noted by Scientific
American and a host of other observers, agricultural biotechnology firms
consistently suppress or render impossible independent scientific studies
by hiding behind patent law. This study -- conducted by French university
scientists -- is a meta-analysis of studies conducted by Monsanto and
another biotech firm, which comes to a different conclusion and calls into
question the adequacy of Monsanto's research methodology. Specifically,
this study looks at sex-differentiated effects and non-linear dose
response curves whereas Monsanto did not. Monsanto has issued a response
to the study, to which one of the lead authors, Gilles-Eric Séralini in
turn responded, "Our study contradicts Monsanto conclusions because
Monsanto systematically neglects significant health effects in mammals
that are different in males and females eating GMOs, or not proportional
to the dose." Originally, published in mid-December, the study has
recently garnered coverage in Huffington Post, Grist and Twilight Earth,
among other outlets.
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) 49 Powell St., Suite 500,
San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
Phone: (415) 981-1771 Fax: (415) 981-1991 Email:
panna@panna.org
Web:
http://www.panna.org
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Look at these two excellent world class bee websites
when you have 5 minutes in the office and the boss isn't looking:
Eric Tourneret Paris Photojournalist and commissioned
phototographer produces stories for publications: Paris match, newton,
Quo, Geo, Focus and Grand Reportage
http://sylla.sp.free.fr/
The second brilliant website is pbs it has lot on CCD
and a nature video section check out the bee video 2.41 minutes viewing
time.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/bees/impact.html
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