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From: Kim@BeeCulture.com<BR>To: LDA@pollinator.org<BR>Sent: 11/17/2010
10:26:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time<BR>Subj: CATCH THE BUZZ - British
Beekeepers End Pesticide Support<BR></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>The BBKA is to end its commercial relationship with a pesticide
manufacturer whose products killed bees.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>From The Guardian, by Allison Benjamin</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>The </FONT><A title=http://www.britishbee.org.uk/ href="http://www.britishbee.org.uk/"><FONT face=Calibri>British Beekeepers'
Association</FONT></A><FONT face=Calibri> has today announced plans to end its
controversial practice of endorsing pesticides in return for cash from leading
chemical manufacturers.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>The endorsement of four products as "bee-friendly" in return for
£17,500 a year caused outrage among many beekeepers because one of the
companies, </FONT><A title=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/16/greenwash-bbka-bees-pesticides href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/16/greenwash-bbka-bees-pesticides"><FONT face=Calibri>Bayer Crop Science</FONT></A><FONT face=Calibri>, makes
pesticides that are widely implicated in the deaths of honeybees worldwide.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>But the BBKA denies that it has bowed to pressure from members
who have been increasingly critical of the its stance. Bayer's clothianidin
was identified as causing the death of two-thirds of honeybees in southern
Germany in 2008.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>In a statement sent outtoday to the secretaries of local
beekeeping associations across the UK, the BBKA's president, Martin Smith,
said: "Following discussion with the companies involved, the BBKA trustees
have decided that endorsement and related product-specific payments will cease
as soon as practically possible."
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>He added: "The four products subject to BBKA endorsement are of
declining commercial importance and the development of </FONT><A title=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/29/endangeredspecies.wildlife href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/29/endangeredspecies.wildlife"><FONT face=Calibri>new classes of pesticides</FONT></A><FONT face=Calibri> and
application techniques means that the relationship with the plant-protection
industry should be reviewed."
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>Beekeeper Graham White, who resigned from the BBKA more than two
years ago in protest at what he called a "secret deal done with the pesticide
manufacturers whose products are lethal to bees", welcomed today's decision.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>"It's great news, but it's too little, too late," he said. "They
should have been showing solidarity with beekeepers in France, Germany, Italy
and Slovenia when pesticides were banned there after being implicated in bee
deaths, instead of selling their logo to the manufacturers."
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>Smith defended its position then as one of "constructive
engagement" to ensure pesticides were properly applied as per the instructions
on the label to minimise damage to honeybees.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>The BBKA's position has polarised the 45,000-strong beekeeping
community, but the majority of BBKA members upheld its policy at its annual
delegate meeting earlier this year and in 2009.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>At the next meeting in January, delegates will be asked to note
today's decision "with respect to the cessation of BBKA endorsement of certain
pesticides".
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>But the organisation has not ruled out accepting funds in the
future from pesticide companies. "The trustees may wish to invite companies to
exhibit at the BBKA's spring convention or make a contribution to the BBKA
research fund," said Smith.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>"It is time to broaden the range of engagement with the
crop-protection industry beyond the narrow focus of endorsing certain
products; rather to contribute more directly to the development of new
regulatory criteria for pesticide approval and to further support the industry
in the general move to improve countryside stewardship," he added.
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Calibri>White says all ties to the pesticide industry should be
immediately severed. "All of those who created and directed this policy of
pesticide endorsement must be thrown out of the BBKA and replaced by real
beekeepers. The BBKA is not fit for purpose and will never recover its moral
integrity until it is reconstituted as a pure beekeeping organisation that is
willing to campaign against all use of systemic pesticides on British farms."
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