Save the Bee, Solution-Sustainable Bee Conservation

Save The Bee

Solution -Sustainable bee Conservation

Bees are good! You can save the bee through many ways, from your little garden until purchasing local honey. Below are some helpful and easy hands-on guidelines for you.

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Create a bees-friendly garden with a mix of native and non-native flowering plants such as tropical fruit trees and garden herbs. Native plants support a variety of local insects while some non-native plants provide more pollen and nectar for bees all year long. Bees depend on those plants for habitat, dietary resources and nesting material like resin to reinforce their nest. Local flowering herbs: wild mugwort / Asiatic wormwood,cats’s whisker/misai kucing, basil (selasih), mint/pudina, asystasia, etc.

Local flowering herbs: wild mugwort / Asiatic wormwood,cats’s whisker/misai kucing, basil (selasih), mint/pudina, asystasia, etc.
Fruit plant: coconut, starfruit, durian, mango, watermelon, guava, passion fruits, etc.
Ornamental plant: sunflower, turneria, air mata pengatin, etc.
Non-native trees: Acacia mangium, Melaleuca cajuputi, Melaleuca viridflora.
Resinous trees: mango , mangosteen, local native tree

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Use biological control like lady bugs instead of pesticides. Avoid the use of pesticide in your garden. These chemicals bring harm to both your pollinators and garden visitors.

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Create a watering station or “bees bath”. Bees will need to take a break and be refreshed at watering area. Prepare a backyard water provider or fill a shallow container with clean water for bee bath. But remember to put some pebbles or necessary “landing pads” for thirsty bees to land on. Change and refill the container with fresh water so that they will return to the same spot every day.

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Bee friendly! Bees are our good friends and will only sting when provoked. Don’t flap your hands when get intact of bees, keep calm and move slowly away from the colony, best into the shade or a tress. They will eventually lose interest

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Support organic farming enterprises that use no pesticides in their farming practices.

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Purchase local honey from local beekeepers. It helps beekeepers to cover some cost of beekeeping and preserving our natural environment as well.

Why Bees Matter?

Bees are the most important plant pollinators on Earth. They may visit hundreds of flowers to collect pollen and nectar. These are the main food to nurture their offspring in the nest. Bees are essential to enhance the plant genetic as pollen is moved between plants as they forage. Without this exchange of pollen, female plant ovules will not be fertilized and neither seed nor fruit will develop. Loss of habitat like forest and pesticide use is the most significant threats contribute to bee declination and extinction.

NO FOREST, NO BEES; NO BEES, NO FOOD FOR MANKIND.

Why Bees Conservation?

If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.

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Do You Know?

The population of bees throughout the world is declining and some are even going to extinct due to some disastrous phenomenon. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been recorded as the biggest apiculture issue throughout the decades. This is a phenomenon where majority of the bee population went missing with very few dead bodies found near the hives.

The queen bee was leave behind in the hive, plenty of food resources and a few nursing bees to take care of the queen and the remaining brood cells. Although there was plenty of food leaves behind, without the worker bees, they could not defend and sustain themselves for long, they would die eventually.

Many research have been done to find out the cause of CCD, yet it is still uncertain, it is often associated with other factors like mites, virus, parasites, poor nutrition, human disturbance and most of all, the climate change.

Studies show that human disturbance resulted to the changed of bees densities in natural ecosystems which causing a dramatic decline in their populations. Those human disturbances include destruction of natural habitat and over usage of pesticide.

Deforestation and the use of pesticide are putting bees into risk. They are suffering from the loss or changes of their natural habitat with an increased agricultural land or oil palm plantation. In Malaysia, loggers chopping down the forest trees which reducing the availability resources for them such as nesting sites, nectar and pollen. Some loggers may even burn those logs that host a bee colony. The bees are losing their home and expose to chemicals that were designed to kill insects in crops plantation. Bees can be killed when they are intact with the pesticides directly. Although without direct exposure, the pesticide exposed in the air will eventually weakens the health of pollinators which making them more susceptible to disease and infection.

Pesticide has been reported as one of the most serious problem contributed to bee declination. A study shows that honeybees are addicted to pesticide-contaminated food. This shocking research discovered honeybees are more likely to collect neonicotinoids-contaminated nectar (a type of drug in pesticide that affecting bee brain) which will eventually put their whole colony and population in risk and of course eventually affecting human health who consume the bee products. Rusty patched bumble bee has just been listed as endangered species in March 2017. Meanwhile in Malaysia, over usage of banned pesticides in agriculture areas has been widely reported for years to raise the public awareness on the unsustainable farming system. Cameron highland is a good example. Deadly chemical contents present in the pesticides like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), Lindane (gamma hexachlorocyclohexane or HCH), endosulfan II, endrine ketone, aldrin and DDE (a derivative of DDT) are highly poisonous and illegal in Malaysia as well as worldwide. These substances are found to be existed in soil and river stream which polluted the land and water resources. The air and land exposed to these chemicals will bring a terrible environmental and health effects to mankind and other living organisms including plants and insects. (Read more on the research done.)

Therefore, health issues like allergic, infertility, cancer, kidney failure etc are arising among people who exposed to the environment and those who consumed the agriculture products. So, just imagine that, if this could harm us, what’s more to our pollinators? Bees are essential pollinator for flowering plants to make them more fruitful and improve the genetic quality. Yet, can bees survive in a poisonous environment like this? Their surviving environment is even worse than us! Natural habitat keeps reducing drastically and the non-eco-friendly managed landscape is not favorable for them. Without bees, human wellbeing will surely be affected, lack choices of fruits and vegetables, we will also lose the sweet golden treasure from the bees hive. Therefore, something needs to be done to rescue the bees and restore our food security.

Project-Adopt A Beehive

The purpose of this project is to save the bees from ecological imbalance caused by the loss of their homes due to human over-exploitation.

In the video, we can see that the felled trees have bee nests, and in order to save the ecology, we retrieved the branches with bee nests and put them in a safe place so that they can continue their mission.

Unfortunately because of some difficulties we are not able to carry out the project of adopting beehives at the moment.

However, we are sure we will see you soon!