> If you want to help danish beekeeper (their black bee) and
> bio-diversity.
> Send this letter to the Danish minister at [log in to unmask]
Thanks to all
Erwan
>
>
> ======================
> LETTRE
>
> To the Danish Minister of Agriculture and Food
> Hans Christian Schmidt
> Address : Friggsvang 3, 6500 Vojens,
> Denmark
> Email : [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> I heard you decided to allow other races of bees on the Island of
> Læsø. You know that the Læsø Black Bee is preserved under 1) The
> Convention of Biological Diversity which Danish Government is a
> signatory too, 2) The Danish Government also is a signatory to The
> Food and Agriculture Organisation Global Strategy from 1999 on the
> preservation of Global Gene resources, 3) The EU Court In Luxemburg
> has ruled that the Preservation Order on the Læsø Black Bee was a
> requirement on The Danish Government, and that no other race of bees
> were to be allowed on the Island of Læsø, 4) SICAMM, The International
> Organisation on the preservation of the Northern European Black Bee,
> held a conference on Læsø in September 2004, and agreed it was
> important to preserve this unique bee.
> Today several European countries are aware of the importance of bee
> biodiversity. They initiate various actions of conservation ; for
> example, the city of Chimay in belgium just set up a zone of
> protection of the dark bee on all its territory.
> I do not understand your unexpected and unacceptable decision opposed
> to the European Community biodiversity strategy (COM/98/0042).
> I steadily ask you to maintain the statute of protection of the dark
> bee of Laeso.
> Yours sincerely.
>
>
>
> Copie à l’association apicole danoise ; email : [log in to unmask]
>
>
> =========================
>
> COMMUNIQUE
>
> Danish Minister of Agriculture Removes the Conservation order on Black
> Bees
>
> ( Apis melliffera mellifera ) on Danish Island of Læsø
>
>
>
> The Danish Minister of Agriculture and Food, Hans Christian Schmidt,
> Email
>
> address <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] Has decided because it goes
> against his libertine
>
> instincts of how a free market economy should function to remove the
>
> conservation orders on the unique Danish Black Bee ( Apis melliffera
>
> mellifera ) which has survived on the Danish Island of Læsø in the
> Kattegat
>
> Sea, for many hundreds of thousands of years. He has decided to allow
> other
>
> races of bees on the Island of Læsø as he say " To improve the previous
>
> arrangements " ( in Danish " for at forbedre den hidtige indsats ) .
> The
>
> Queen honey bee mates up to 15 - 16 times at a height of up to 1000
> metres
>
> in the air, males bees 'drones', are able to fly over 15 kilometre's;
> as
>
> the Island of Læsø is only 25 Kilometres long there will be there for,
> no
>
> were on the Island that the unique black Læsø bee will not be mated by
> other
>
> species of honey bee. The Læsø Black Bee is preserved under 1) ' The
>
> Convention of Biological Diversity 1992 ' which Danish Government is a
>
> signatory too 2) The Danish Government also is a signatory to ' The
> Food
>
> and Agriculture Organisation ' FAO Global Strategy from 1999 on the
>
> preservation of Global Gene resources 3) The EU Court In Luxemburg has
>
> ruled that the Preservation Order on the Læsø Black Bee was a
> requirement on
>
> The Danish Government, and that no other race of bees were to be
> allowed on
>
> the Island of Læsø . 4) SICAMM 'The International Organisation on the
>
> preservation of the Northern European Black Bee' held a conference on
> Læsø
>
> in September 2004, and agreed it was important to preserve this unique
> bee.
>
> A Danish Beekeeper Ditlev Blume, who shares Hans Christian Schmidt,
>
> Libertine Philosophy has fought all the above International
> Judgements, and
>
> has now got the backing of the Danish ' Liberal ' Minister of Food And
>
> Agriculture, to allow other races of bees like ligustica ( yellow Bee
> )on
>
> the Island of Læsø. He has now also got the Danish minister backing to
>
> ignore all international judgements on the importance of preserving the
>
> unique Black Bee which absorbs the suns rays better in northern
> Climates,
>
> and in fact is a lot older genetic version of the other honey bee
> varieties.
>
>
>
> Professor Bo Vest Pedersen from Copenhagen Universities, ' Zoological
>
> Institute' is now convinced that another species of our planets
>
> increasingly endangered species, the Læsø black bee will now disappear
>
> unless International pressure can be brought to bare on the Danish
> Minister
>
> of Food & Agriculture. Danish Beekeepers a through their ' Denmark's
>
> Biavlerforening ' ( Danish Beekeepers Association ) Chairman Bjarne
>
> Sørensen Email : <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] are appealing
> to all beekeepers,
>
> conservation interested people, and friends of our planet earth, to
> raise a
>
> massive ' Press & Media Storm' to this Danish government minister who
>
> would like the world to think that Denmark is a civilised democratic
>
> country. By emailing, or writing personally to Danish Minister of Food
> and
>
> Agriculture, Hans Christian Schmidt, Address : Friggsvang 3, 6500
> Vojens,
>
> Denmark, Tel : 0045 33922002 or email <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
> your own protest in your
>
> own words, or using the information above. The author of this article
> has
>
> found out on ' the principle of five ' , that if you send some
> important
>
> information to five important people within seven days every one in the
>
> world will know about it. Asks you to send this information to The
> Press,
>
> Journalists, BBC, Opinion Formers, in fact any one you can think of.
> For
>
> further information you can contact Denmark's National Beekeeping
> Advisor
>
> and President of Apimondia, Asger Søgaard Jørgensen, on
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] web
>
> page <http://www.biavl.dk>www.biavl.dk Tel : 0045 57561777 .
>
>
>
>

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