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Warm weather boosts hopes for rarest bumblebee's revival in Britain
2014-05-19 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Warm spring conditions should help Britain's rarest bumblebee as wildlife experts reintroduce a new batch of queens to help boost the species. The short-haired bumblebee vanished from the UK in 1988, having suffered declines over the previous 60 years as its habitat was lost, and was officially declared extinct in 2000. A scheme to reintroduce the species has seen experts collecting short-haired bumblebee queens from Sweden, where they are found in good numbers, and releasing them at the RSPB's...
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Britain's rarest bees in steep decline
2013-05-09 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Many of the UK's 250 bee species are in trouble, according to a report from the University of Reading and Friends of the Earth, with intensive farming, urban sprawl and coastal development blamed as well as pesticides
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