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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
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<h1><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Burt's
Bees Aims to Improve Bee Health<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=subhead><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Corporate Love in the Time of Colony Collapse Disorder<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Burt's
Bees and the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign are looking for a
few good scientists to help improve the ailing health of the honeybee.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Burt's
Bees, the maker of "earth-friendly natural" personal care products,
is contributing $32,000, and the North American Pollinator Protection
Campaign's Honeybee Health Improvement Task Force will leverage its scientific
expertise in choosing the 2-4 projects most worthy of a cash infusion. The
money will benefit research that focuses on one of four things: the effect of
climate on nectar or pollen quality and other environmental variables, the
effects of nutrition on bee or colony health, the health effects of pesticides,
or ways to improve the genetic stock of honeybees.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The goal
is to define real-world techniques that will improve honeybee health at a time
when an unknown agent (or some combination of known agents) is causing
unprecedented death in a phenomenon called colony collapse disorder. Even
before colony collapse disorder reared its ugly head (scattering bees from
their hives, to which they never returned), honeybees had experienced years of
decline as a result of a series of viruses, parasites and other problems.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you're
a scientist with a great idea, go to <a
href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/print-this/environmental-news/latest/burts-bees-47121502"
target="_new" http:="" www.pollinator.org="" honeybee_health.htm="">Pollinator.org</a>
for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you're
just concerned about bees, take heart that maybe some sorely needed help is on
the way.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p id=findthisarticle><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Find this article at: </span></font></b><a
href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/burts-bees-47121502">http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/burts-bees-47121502</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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