Report - Germany Bee Death: In Search of Scientific Evidence

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Bee Death: In Search of Scientific Evidence

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A dramatic spate of bee deaths has being observed in the USA. In many regions almost 90 percent of the population has been affected. In Germany and Switzerland too, colony numbers have virtually halved in the last 15 years. But what are the causes?

Suspects include insecticides, old and new pathogens and more recently, radiation from mobile telephone masts. Agricultural monocultures or too little genetic diversity within the bee populations have also been cited as possible causes, as have genetically modified plants: especially Bt maize and Bt cotton, which are grown on a large scale in the USA.

Environmental organisations such as the Sierra Club, one of the oldest environmental organisations in the USA, wrote to the US Senate calling for a detailed scientific examination of the correlation between genetic engineering and bee deaths.Various expert committees in the USA and Europe have considered this Bt hypothesis and sifted through the available scientific research. They concluded that existing findings contain no evidence to suggest that Bt plants are harmful to bees.