Beekeepers stage funeral for France's dying bee population

Young journalists club

News ID: 24047
Publish Date: 21:24 - 07 June 2018
TEHRAN, June 07 - Bees in France are fast dying, say beekeepers who staged a mock funeral in central Paris on Thursday.

TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - French beekeepers say an average of 30 percent of bee colonies died following the last winter, due to pesticides used across the country.

They said the ravaged bee population has severely affected the honey harvest, hence threatening their livelihood.

The colonies have deteriorated so badly that some beekeepers may not be able to carry on, demonstrators said.

A small delegation marched toward the presidential palace, but was stopped by police.

Pesticides destroy insects and other organisms harmful to cultivated plants and crops, with knock-on effects through the food chain.

An EU court upheld last month a partial ban on three insecticides known as neonicotinoids, saying the European Commission had been right in 2013 to restrict their use to protect bees.

(Source: Reuters)

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