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May 19th, 2015 
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The dwindling number of honeybees in the US has been a constant worry for farmers in recent years – and now the White House is buzzing into action. On Tuesday, the Obama administration unveiled a new strategy aimed at protecting honeybees’ habitat.
The National Strategy to Promote the Health of
Honey Bees and Other Pollinators will seek to manage the way forests
are burned by wildfires and replanted, how offices are
landscaped, and how roadside habitats where bees feed are
preserved.
Drawing on the work of 14 agencies, along with the private
sector, it aims to reduce honeybee colony losses during winter to
no more than 15 percent within a decade. It also states that the
government and private entities will restore or enhance 7 million
acres of land for pollinators over the next five years.
READ MORE: Bee careful: UK garden centers urged
to drop popular pesticide to protect honeybees
The strategy is based on findings from the Pollinator Health Task
Force, created by the White House in 2014 to study the honeybees’
decline.
“I have to say that it is mighty darn lovely having the White
House acknowledge the indigenous, unpaid and invisible workforce
that somehow has managed to sustain all terrestrial life without
healthcare subsidies, or a single COLA, for that past 250 million
years,” said Sam Droege, a US Geological Survey wildlife
biologist and an expert on native bee identification, as quoted
by The Washington Post.
But ‘Beemageddon’ has actually been on the White House’s agenda
for some time. In fact, the federal government launched an action
plan on the dwindling honeybee population as long ago as 2007.
President Obama himself has also expressed ongoing concern about
the insects’ ever-decreasing numbers.
READ MORE: ‘Bee killer’ pesticide provides little
benefit to farmers – EPA
During an Oval Office meeting in 2013, Obama asked White House
science adviser John Holdren: “What are we doing on bees? Are
we doing enough?” That discussion started turning the wheels
for the White House Pollinator Health Task Force.
The president also signed off on the placement of a beehive on
the South Lawn of the White House in 2009. The approval of a
pollinators’ garden later followed.
Meanwhile, Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) stated in an interview that
preventing the honeybee genocide was “an essential thing
[that] we need to pay attention to.”
The plight of the bees – described as a potential ecological
disaster by some environmentalists and experts – has been a
source of ongoing stress for beekeepers, farmers, and
environmentalists, as the insects are relied upon to pollinate
the plants that produce a quarter of the food consumed by
Americans.
READ MORE: Canadian beekeepers’ sting: Pesticide
giants sued for $450mn over bee deaths
A
government report
released last month
found that 42.1 percent of the US honeybee population died last
year.
However, the exact cause of the mass deaths remains unknown – and
has sparked fierce debate in the US.
Some have pointed the finger at a class of insecticide known as
neonicotinoids, or neonics, which is used on crops such as corn,
as well as on standard garden plants. Others have blamed the
varroa mite parasite, along with the stresses that bee colonies
endure while being carted from farm to farm during growing
seasons.
The Obama administration has proposed spending $82.5 million on
honeybee research in the upcoming budget year – up from the
current $34 million.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a series of
studies on the effects of neonics on bees and plants; the first
in a series of assessments is expected to be released later this
year. The agency will also implement new restrictions on which
pesticides farmers can use when commercial honeybees are
pollinating their crops.
Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/260073-honeybees-white-house-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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