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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: Our Bees Deserve Better!

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. May 13, 2010. Our Bees Deserve Better! You can also access this form by clicking here. P p Loading. /p /p. If this form doesn't load, you can also access it by clicking here. Why is the quarantine important? 1 There are diseases and pests on the Mainland that don’t exist here yet. 5 Local stock is adapted to local conditions. Outside bees aren’t. The past six months have ...

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: Thank you Metchosin!

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. Jul 2, 2010. The good people of the District of Metchosin have spoken out loudly in defense of our island bees. Without bees and their pollinating powers, 2/3 of our local food production would disappear. They are critically important to local food security and the economic viability of many of our local farms. Why is the quarantine important? A message from the Capital R...

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: Site locked down

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. Apr 4, 2013. To Whom It May Concern:. My work as Saanich South MLA and Opposition Critic for Agriculture ends when the Writ Drops on April 16 2013, one month before the BC provincial election on May 14. During the Writ period I will not be an MLA (but an incumbent candidate seeking re-election). My apologies for any inconvenience. Why is the quarantine important? Me neith...

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: Stung!

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. Nov 16, 2010. Kudos to Greg Horne for making this documentary! Watch it and you'll know why island bee-keepers swarmed the BC Legislature this fall.and why it is so important that we protect our precious island pollinators. I also want to acknowledge the resolution adopted at the recent BC Honey Producers' Association AGM:. Lana Popham, MLA Saanich South. 5 Local stock is...

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: Local Beekeepers are fighting to keep our precious island pollinators safe

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. Feb 28, 2011. Local Beekeepers are fighting to keep our precious island pollinators safe. Here is a letter I sent on Friday to BC Agriculture Minister Ben Stewart regarding the inadequate protection of island honey-bees. February 25, 2011. Dear Minister Stewart,. Experts, concerned individuals and myself, have been speaking out strongly about this situation since the quar...

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: April 2012

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. Apr 3, 2012. Dear bee-keepers and bee-supporters,. Last week during the Budget Estimates for the Ministry of Agriculture, I turned the spotlight onto the serious challenges facing bee-keepers in British Columbia. As a past farmer and lifetime local food supporter I know that we cannot have BC agriculture without pollinators. Agriculture Critic, MLA Saanich South. 6 Surely...

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: March 2013

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. Mar 29, 2013. Spring 2013: How are your bees? Dear bee-keepers and bee-supporters,. Over the last week I've been touching base with bee-keepers across BC. I know it is a little early yet, but I want to hear from you if you are experiencing any significant die-off. I would appreciate your input. Please email me at lana.popham.mla@leg.bc.ca. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: Letter to the BC Agriculture Minister

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. Jul 8, 2010. Letter to the BC Agriculture Minister. Why is the quarantine important? 1 There are diseases and pests on the Mainland that don’t exist here yet. 2 The quarantine has slowed the spread of diseases. Varroa arrived here years after it decimated the Mainland. And then only because someone knowingly brought bees in illegally. Hello beekeepers and friends. We were...

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: Let's Swarm the Legislature!

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. Sep 7, 2010. Let's Swarm the Legislature! The bees need your help! Last year more than 90% of the honey-bees on the island died! And what is worse, the provincial government's response has been to weaken the protections for our precious island bees. Bee-keepers from across Vancouver Island ask you to join them for a rally:. Hope to see you there! 6 Surely there was plenty...

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy!: Canadian Pollination Network Calls on BC Government to Reconsider Decision to Weaken Bee Regulations on Vancouver Island

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Keep our Island Bees Healthy! A website devoted to ensuring the bee populations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are thriving. Sep 29, 2010. Canadian Pollination Network Calls on BC Government to Reconsider Decision to Weaken Bee Regulations on Vancouver Island. Why is the quarantine important? 1 There are diseases and pests on the Mainland that don’t exist here yet. 4 The losses were up to 90% — what if we have something new on the island that we are about to export now? The past six months have...