The Eden Project's 2nd Conference for Sustainable Beekeeping, a Future With...
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Saturday February 16th, 2019
Eden’s Projects Sustainable Beekeeping a British Isles Perspective, a Future Without Imports.
Saturday Morning
HONEY BEE GENETICS AND ADAPTATION
- Dr Mairi Knight, Dr Jon Ellis, University of Plymouth:-Understanding honey bee genetics: a layperson’s overview. Please address any questions you want addressing on genetics to andrew@aglbrown.co.uk
- Victoria Buswell:- University of Plymouth Local adaptation in dark European honey bees: preliminary results and a request for help.
- Norman Carreck:- Sussex University Using whole genome sequencing to analyse the genetic diversity of the UK honey bee population.
HONEY BEE CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE BEEKEEPING
- Dr Mark Barnett Edinburgh University:- The need to conserve the Dark European honey bee.
- Dylan Elen, Bangor University:- Developing sustainable beekeeping in Wales, some results of initial genetic survey.
- Prof Grace P McCormack, National University of Ireland Galway:-Feral bees and Irish proposals for rewilding native honey bees.
Saturday Afternoon
Apiary group contributions from the South West, presenting achievements, goals, events and participation opportunities.
Chance to have a tour of The Eden Exhibition, “Plan Bee”, led by Dr Jo Elworthy (Director of Interpretation). The exhibition runs from January 26th to March 17th 2019.
“Plan Bee”, is part of the Invisible Worlds theme that Eden have been running and includes the https://www.edenproject.com/visit/whats-on/plan-bee-art-exhibition
Organiser B4Project
Organiser of The Eden Project's 2nd Conference for Sustainable Beekeeping, a Future Without Imports
The B4 Project Community Interest Company
B4 was established 5th March 2013, its purpose is to protect the British Isles native dark honeybee, Apis mellifera mellifera (or Amm). The B4 Project is a private company, limited by guarantee and without share capital. Our two patrons are Sir Timothy Bartel Smit KBE (The Eden Project) and Michael Eavis CBE (Glastonbury Festival). The Duchy are supportive of the aims of the B4Project.
http://duchyofcornwall.org/news/duchy-helps-cornish-black-bees/
The B4 Project is an entirely voluntary organisation. It relies on goodwill, grant funding and aims to facilitate collaboration between like-minded groups but without long term encumbrance. B4 aims to transfer ownership of the future of the native honeybee to beekeepers within the beekeeping community and other, supportive, public educational institutions.
The seven directors and their extended network represent those beekeepers both nationally and regionally who have an interest in conserving the British Isles native honeybee.
