DEFRA IGNORES THREATS AND REFUSES EXTRA FUNDING FOR BEE HEALTH RESEARCH –
NATION’S HONEY BEES COULD BE WIPED OUT IN 10 YEARS.
At a recent meeting with representatives of the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA), to discuss the serious threat currently confronting honey bees, Lord Rooker, Minister of State for Sustainable Farming, Food and Animal Welfare, while not denying that bee health is seriously at risk said in a Lords debate on 27 November 2007, there was “no way in which the government could find additional money to put into bee research”.