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Homeowners' bid to save Britain's dwindling bee population
2015-11-09 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Homeowners across the country are getting together to save Britain's dwindling bee population, George Eustice will say today. The announcement comes as research finds Britain's bee population is plummeting and Honeybee colonies have slumped in the UK from 250,000 in the 1950s, to fewer than 100,000 today. Many British apple crops, for example, which previously relied on honeybees, are now almost exclusively pollinated by a handful of wild bee species. The Environment Minister will say the progress...
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