> SAN FRANCISCO, CA November 5, 2007 – The critical disappearance of bees, called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), is still a mysterious threat to honey bees, the mainstay of pollination services in agriculture. The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC), a tri-national coalition dedicated to promoting the health of all pollinators and a project of the Pollinator Partnership, is teaming up with bee-friendly, natural personal care company Burt's Bees to address this agricultural and environmental issue.
> Burt's Bees has given seed funding to a specific "task force" with NAPPC coined The Honeybee Health Improvement Project. The HHIP task force is led by Danny Weaver, J.D., President of The American Beekeeping Federation, Christina Grozinger, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Insect Genomics at North Carolina State University and Barry Thompson, M.D., a Director of the Eastern Apicultural Society, and includes well-renowned researchers from around the country.
> The company's support will fund initiating this task force as well as NAPPC's research of key issues facing honeybee health: beekeeper education, foraging opportunities and breeding stock research. NAPPC and Burt's Bees will also collaborate in the production and distribution of 50,000 packets with bee-pollinating seeds through their website, product orders, and through local sampling efforts.
[ I wonder where the money went, besides the packets of seeds? ]
http://www.pollinator.org/honeybee_health.htm
Honey Bee Health NAPPC Task Force
Laurie Adams
Coevolution Institute/NAPPC
May Berenbaum
University of Illinois
Nicholas Calderone
Cornell University
Dewey Caron
University of Delaware
Christine Elsik
Georgetown University
Wayne Esaias
Oceanographer
Diana Cox Foster
Pennsylvania State University
Christina Grozinger*
North Carolina State University
G.W. (Jerry) Hayes
Apiary Inspectors of America
Douglas Holy
USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
Eric Mussen
University of California, Davis
Jeff Pettis
Research Leader, USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab
Gene Robinson
Univsersity of Illinois
Colin Stewart
USDA APHIS PPQ
Barry H. Thompson*
Thompson Apiaries, LLC
Daniel Weaver*
Bee Weaver Apiaries, Inc.
Wayne Wehling
USDA APHIS PPQ
*Co-Chairs
http://www.pollinator.org/honeybee_health.htm
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