The vanishing of the Bees…
Now, when we face the question of the very survival of the world’s bees, scientists believe the reasons for their disappearance to be multiple and varied. In the United States, it is called CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder. This acronym groups together all factors behind the disappearance not just of domestic bees, but that of other Apis species: monoculture, pesticides, GMOs, bee diseases, deforestation… Today it is certain that man’s predation on the environment is causing the disappearance of pollinators, insects which nevertheless provide a free service to the American farming economy valued at some 15 billion dollars, which surely attains several hundred billion euros on a global scale. In a swift around-the-world tour, this report shows the paradoxes and complexities behind the disappearance of bee colonies.
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