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Bees are in desperate trouble, falling prey to mites and disease, Colony Collapse Disorder, and climate change. Lack of forage and habitat due to modern monoculture farming is generally accepted as one of the reasons for bee decline. But there may be more to it than that.
Bees and other pollinators account for up to 200 million pounds a year to the UK economy. They account for a thrid of the food on our plates. They pollinate a great variety of vegetables, herbs such as borage, mint, marjoram and plenty more, fruit, and even animal fodder. So indirectly they are responsible for the meat on your plate too. The bee also visits a wide variety of garden plants and wildflowers. The damage to our food supply, the environment and the very look of the countryside cannot be overstated.
You cannot better bee design. The bee has been around for millenia, coping with climate change like the ice age and is a master of adaptation. Until now that is. What is it about modern life that is so deadly for the bee? BAN feels bees are suffering from chemical overload and lack of forage and habitat, whicih is reducing their abillity to cope by compromising their immune system. Pesticides, cell phone masts, air and land pollution and modern farming practises - all may be implicated. We need to do something practical now to help bees.
Bees Action Network plans to help struggling bees now by increasing their forage and habitat - ensuring the forage is as free from pollutants as possible. The Daisy Chain Campaign will do just that.
Daisy Chain Campaign
We have been asked to run our main campaign - the Daisy Chain Campaign - providing free biodynamic and organic seeds for bee loving plants - through the 2012 community food growing spaces to be found for 2012 Olympics.
We don't believe in providing non-organic or conventional seed because conventional seeds can come with a pesticide dressing. We want to stay on the safe side until we see the results of all the research.
Gardeners click here for a bee-loving plant list
Click on the Campaigns page for further details on the Daisy Chain Campaign
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How Changing to Organic Food Can Help Save Bees:
'Organic farms are proving to be sanctuaries for the honeybee from the ravages of CCD. ……Saving the honeybee may be among the most compelling reasons to shift comprehensively to organic agriculture' - Professor J Cummins, Institute of Science in Society - 'To Be Organic or not to Bee'
Read more at http://www.i-sis.org.uk/disappearingBees.php
You too can do your bit to help bees. If all gardeners gardened organically and put up solitary bee boxes the bee crisis may be greatly alleviated. Even a window box with bee-loving organic plants in would help!
Cut the chemicals! Ask your garden centre for natural alternatives.......
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Mobile Phone Mast 'Smog' has been cited as a factor in bee death and Colony Collpase Disorder. Read Barrie Trower's Glastonbury Symposium Lecture - 'Will the Communications Industry be the Final Straw for Our Planet's Ecosytems?'
(Barrie Trower was trained at the Government's microwave warfare establishment for the Roayl Navy. He is a biophysicist and is BAN's scientific advisor)
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BAN seeks to help bees by:
- providing organic forage and habitat throughout communtiy food growing spaces all over the country - begining in London
- providing 'safe havens' for bees free as far as possible from envirnomental pollution of all kinds
If you would like to help us with a donation - please click here to go to our 'Donate' page. Thank you
The Truth Matters – Your Unconventional Routes to Health
www.thetruthmatters.org.uk
Do you know someone who’s been diagnosed with cancer, diabetes, auto-immune or degenerative diseases? Almost all of us know someone who has.
All of us have to rely on the health services at some time in our lives. But there are alternatives. There may be other ways to get back to health. The importance of diet for instance – not only in preventing – but also curing - disease.
Read the about Bees Action Network and their founder's own experience. Go to http://www.thetruthmatters.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170&Itemid=275
To listen to Jeffrey Smith's lecture on GMO's - click here
Say no to GMOs - join the Campaign at www.anhcampaign.org
If you would like to know more about becoming a Sustainable Beekeeper go to our sustainable beekeeping toolkit for all sorts of info!
- click 'Toolkit For Sustainable Beekeeping'
You can either DONATE to Bees Action Network to help struggling bees by going to our Donate tab - or by clicking on this link:
http://www.charitygiving.co.uk/donate/donate_b.asp?charityid=1870
We don't feel you can improve on the bee. It has done what it does for millenia and it withstood the ice age, perfectly adapted to its environment. Until now. It has a highly sensitive immune system which may have been severely undermined by modern farming methods meaning a lack of good forage; chemicals such as neonicotinoid pesticides and other agrichemicals - resulting in impaired immunity and leaving bees open to infection, disease and mite infestation.
