Agri-chemical companies like Syngenta don’t just make the chemicals that have been blamed for the decline in bees; they also breed the bees that are being used as a replacement for wild pollinators
… companies are both breeding and killing bees Tom Levitt | 13th October 2009 News Bees Pollination Health Natural World … that have been blamed for the decline in bees; they also breed the bees that are being …
There's no great conspiracy around bee deaths - hive diseases have been with us for millennia. No one who keeps livestock should expect an easy ride...
… 2010 Comment Food And Farming Natural World Bees Gardening Honey CCD Colony Collapse … his great farming poem, is devoted to bees. Honey was felt to be a magical substance … honey, and the light of the candle made from beeswax. There are pages and pages on bees too …
Widespread use of insecticides affecting bee populations but also causing decline in numbers of birds, butterflies and moths, warns Dutch toxicologist
… Levitt | 16th November 2010 News Pesticides Bees Birds Ecology Natural World Food And … bee numbers across Europe. He now believes bees are not the only victims. ‘Any insect … for worldwide food security, because bees are our most important pollinators and …
Climate change may be affecting the normal breeding patterns of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians leading to fears of future population loss of some species
… could be causing flowers to open before bees emerged from hibernation leading to … links Study in full READ MORE... NEWS Bees stung by 'climate change-linked' early … change may be causing flowers to open before bees emerge from hibernation leading to …
Campaigners fear 'backward' step in pesticide regulation in UK after testing body scrapped as Government also confirms major budget cuts to Natural England and the Environment Agency
Independent testing of pesticides in food in doubt after quango cull Tom Levitt | 14th October 2010 News Pesticides Food And Farming Natural World Environment DEFRA Natural England …
Idleness usually sees Tom through most of life's trials. But not gardening. Oh no. Nature took one look and ran amok
I tried natural gardening. It was a disaster Tom Hodgkinson | 29th May 2010 Comment Green Living Food And Farming Gardening Work Society tom_hodgkinson_crop.jpg Idleness usually sees Tom through most …
While the UN is celebrating the international year of biodiversity conservation groups in the UK worry that a rising number of isolated populations are in danger of becoming extinct
… nectar source for pollinators such as bees , whose population in England has fallen …
Charities and NGOs complain high costs make it almost impossible for them to bring legal challenges against damaging environmental decisions - despite them being in the wider public interest
… Justice Aarhus Society brownbandedcarderbumblebeesamashfield.jpg The charity Buglife sought …
What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, they did at least try to warn us that intensive farming would render our soils and civilisation unviable...
… He also gives directions on how to look after bees, poultry, pigs, cattle and sheep. …