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Meet the Scientist Breeding 无码视频 Resilient Bees (And 4 Other People Working to Save the Pollinators)
With honeybee populations on the decline, scientists, lawyers, and even artists have set out to save humanity's most important pollinators.
Marla Spivak:聽Breeding bees to detect disease
Rob & Chelsea McFarland: Welcoming bees聽to the city
Rob and Chelsea McFarland didn鈥檛 choose the bees; the bees chose them. 鈥淥ne day, we were out in the garden and a swarm showed up,鈥 they say. Years later, the founders of the Los Angeles nonprofit HoneyLove are dedicated to training urban beekeepers and raising awareness of bees in cities.
鈥淥ur bees are actually healthier in the city.鈥
Lori Ann Burd:聽Taking the fight聽to Washington, D.C.
In the battle for conservation, it鈥檚 nice to have someone like Lori Ann Burd on your side. Burd is the environmental health director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a veteran activist turned seasoned lawyer.
鈥淚t鈥檚 hard to overestimate the importance of pollinators.鈥
鈥淚t鈥檚 hard to overestimate the importance of pollinators,鈥 Burd says. 鈥淥ne out of three bites of food that we take requires pollination. What I鈥檓 trying to do is help people understand that the fate of humans is intertwined with the fate of all species.鈥 And when asked what keeps her going in the face of constant challenge, she replies, 鈥淲inning.鈥
Sarah Hatton:聽Activist鈥檚 message beautifully written in dead bees
Sometimes you can鈥檛 understand the battle until you see the bodies. Quebec-based artist and beekeeper Sarah Hatton鈥檚 mathematical arrangements of dead honeybees are an entrancing and sobering reminder that human activity, like the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, is responsible for the death of bees on a mass scale. After losing two of her own beehives, Hatton coped by transforming her dead bees into art. As the project gained attention, she saw the opportunity to raise awareness and help people understand the implications of bee colony collapse. Now other beekeepers donate their own casualties to her work.
For more information about emerging pollinator issues, listen to Lori Ann Burd and other beekeepers .
Miles Schneiderman
is a freelance writer, podcaster, fact-checker, and media producer. His work can be found on www.mjschneiderman.com
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