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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

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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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Hacettepe University Faculty of Science Department of Biology 06800 Beytepe/Ankara.Turkey

University publications

http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~ama/

Website: http://www.harum.hacettepe.edu.tr/ (click 2nd button down for publications)

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