It’s estimated that bees are chargeable for pollinating one out of three bites of the meals we eat. Whereas they actually aren’t the one pollinators, they’re the best, spending most of their life accumulating pollen to feed their offspring. As they proceed to fade on account of a variety of causes, from industrialized agriculture to world warming, particular person efforts at bee conservation are on the rise. The popularization of the #SaveTheBees motion within the 2010s led individuals to name for creating pollinator habitats, reducing using pesticides and investing in beehives.
A disaster was declared in 2006 when beekeepers started noticing the disappearance of their colonies over winter: a phenomenon referred to as colony collapse dysfunction. Campaigning about honeybees has raised consciousness of the lack of different native, non-honey-producing wild bees.
Beekeeping is not only a pastime but in addition a method to reconnect with nature and our surrounding atmosphere. That is essential in occasions the place we’ve turn into alienated from the species that maintain our lives, whether or not by a direct transactional relationship, as with the honeybee that produces the wax and liquid gold we devour immediately, or by a extra symbiotic relationship, the place we rely on wild bees to pollinate our crops.
Nevertheless, the expansion in city hives is commonly too speedy for present plant sources to take care of bee colonies, and would possibly negatively impression biodiversity. So, what’s a benevolent and accountable bee fanatic to do?
Right now’s company
Sarah Waring is a workers editor at Eurozine and creator of the e book Farming for the Landless: New views on the cultivation of our honeybee. She has written extensively on beekeeping as a farming observe throughout Europe.
Harald Kicker is a beekeeper from the Sonnwendgarten in Vienna, a group backyard within the tenth district, the place members are getting energetic and creating a spot for gardening and neighbourly change.
Gergely Simon is an environmental chemist and a regional poisonous professional at Greenpeace CEE. He’s additionally the Senior Chemical substances officer of the Pesticide Motion Community Europe. Gergley offers with the evaluation of home air air pollution analysis, attracts consideration to the chemical compounds present in our on a regular basis life and explores areas contaminated with harmful toxins.
We meet with them on the Erste Basis Library.
Inventive staff
Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief
Merve Akyel, artwork director
Szilvia Pintér, producer
Zsófia Gabriella Papp, digital producer
Salma Shaka, writer-editor
Priyanka Hutschenreiter, challenge assistant
Administration
Hermann Riessner, managing director
Judit Csikós, challenge supervisor
Csilla Nagyné Kardos, workplace administration
OKTO Crew
Senad Hergić, producer
Leah Hochedlinger, video recording
Marlena Stolze, video recording
Clemens Schmiedbauer, video recording
Richard Brusek, sound recording
Postproduction
Milan Golovics, dialogue editor
Nóra Ruszkai, video editor
István Nagy, publish manufacturing
Artwork
Victor Maria Lima, animation
Cornelia Frischauf, theme music
Sarah Waring, bee illustrations
Captions and subtitles
Julia Sobota, Daniela Univazo, Mars Zaslavsky, Marta Ferdebar, Olena Yermakova, Farah Ayyash
Hosted by the Erste Basis Library
Associated reads
Breaking bread: Meals and water methods beneath stress, Eurozine Editorial.
Additional sources
The honeybee: our important hyperlink between agriculture and ecology by Sarah Waring, Beelines.
Disclosure
This discuss present is a Show Europe manufacturing: a ground-breaking media platform anchored in public values.
This programme is co-funded by the Inventive Europe Programme of the European Union and the European Cultural Basis.
Importantly, the views and opinions expressed listed here are these of the authors and audio system solely and don’t essentially mirror these of the European Union or the European Training and Tradition Govt Company (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA could be held chargeable for them.
