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Fantastic report by Dan Rather on the Honey Bee dieoff and links to pesticides

Respected US journalist Dan Rather has produced a new video segment on the dieoff of the honey bees - and the links to pesticides:

http://vimeo.com/29419200

And he has blogged about this important story on The Huffington Post at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-rather/honeybees-pesticides-food-chain...

By Dan Rather

There have been numerous reports, including on our program, Dan Rather Reports, about the decline of the honeybee. They've been dying off in huge numbers. The cause has been lumped under a title called "Colony Collapse Disorder" or CCD.

April 29th 2011 - German Beekeepers Demonstrate Against Systemic Pesticides in Cologne

Manfred Hederer, President of DBIB, the German Professional Beekeeping Association, released this announcement this week. The situation for honey bees in Germany is very bad, and worsening. 

If interested, please email info@berufsimker.de for more information.

Location: 
Cologne, NW
Germany
50° 56' 26.394" N, 6° 57' 35.6832" E

Location

Cologne, NW
Germany
50° 56' 26.394" N, 6° 57' 35.6832" E

Germany Suspends Nicotine-based Pesticide Products

Translated from the German, this document provides the reasoning behind the 2008 suspension of nicotine-based insecticides/pesticides in Germany, based on the severe honey bee losses in southwest Germany that year. Seed treatments were blamed for thoses incidents, including the losses reported in the film Nicotine Bees by German beekeepers Walter Haefeker and Karl-Rainer Koch.

Locations

Germany
48° 8' 23.3592" N, 11° 34' 46.524" E
Germany
48° 8' 29.9544" N, 11° 33' 27.4212" E
Germany
52° 31' 18.4512" N, 13° 24' 11.952" E

Guttation Water Can Be Deadly to Bees: Dr. Hedwig Riebe (Germany) Presents in Paris

Dr. Hedwig Riebe of the German Professional Beekeepers Association presents the important new research on the exposure routes of honey bees to nicotine insecticides - especially compelling evidence that guttation water secreted naturally by plants that bees drink, contains high concentrations of nicotine pesticides.

 

Location

Paris, J75
France
48° 51' 24.0012" N, 2° 21' 3.5532" E

Causes of Bee Losses from CCD in Germany

Vice-President of the European Professional Beekeepers Association (EPBA) Walter Haefeker presents compelling evidence of nicotinoid/nicotine pesticide links to huge honeybee colony losses in Germany.

Download attached PDF file for complete presentation.

Location

Montpellier Montpellier
France
43° 36' 29.4336" N, 3° 52' 46.0056" E

10-Year Old Felix: Plant for the Planet Campaign (Deutsch with subtitles)

Jul 13 2008
10-Year Old Felix: Plant for the Planet Campaign (Deutsch with subtitles) Video Thumbnail

The amazing 10-year-old Felix Finkbeiner articulates his wishes for "Plant for the Planet" the campaign to plant trees - a United Nations-sponsored program that has become an overwhelming success.

In German, with English subtitles.

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