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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Black" data-source="post: 6926" data-attributes="member: 200"><p>In the spirit of 'put up or shut up' (and at great personal risk <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) I have had a go at drafting something I might like to see as a Bee Welfare Code of Practice. Here goes...</p><p></p><p>Beekeepers have a responsibility to provide, at minimum, specific, community-acceptable, animal housing and husbandry standards for their honeybees. This code defines ethical standards for the management of honeybee colonies.</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Beekeepers will ensure their attention and competency enables the highest standard of husbandry, and will continuously improve their knowledge, observation, and expertise in order to anticipate, recognise, reduce, or remove instances of stress, malnutrition, death or disease.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Honeybees will be housed in hives that allow beekeepers to monitor and care for their bees and that allow them to respond to change in their environment, exhibiting their full range of normal, observable, natural behaviour, including but not limited to, nest construction, feeding, growth, movement, communication, learning, and reproduction.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Honeybee hives will be designed, constructed and used so that they facilitate the seasonal biological requirements for colony growth and reproduction, defence from predation and disease, and protection from unfavourable exposure to the elements.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A beekeeper will choose sites for their hive(s) that provide the bees with access to collect food, water, and materials they need, and will act to supplement, manage and conserve the ecosystems that sustain sites providing resources for their honeybees.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">As far as possible, the aim of all interventions a beekeeper may make will contribute to and not reduce the long-term well-being of a colony or the apiary of which it is a part.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sustainably harvesting resources from a hive must be achieved without undermining the integrity and stability of the colony, recognising its contribution in a complex ecosystem and own intrinsic value.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Black, post: 6926, member: 200"] In the spirit of 'put up or shut up' (and at great personal risk :) ) I have had a go at drafting something I might like to see as a Bee Welfare Code of Practice. Here goes... Beekeepers have a responsibility to provide, at minimum, specific, community-acceptable, animal housing and husbandry standards for their honeybees. This code defines ethical standards for the management of honeybee colonies. [LIST=1] [*]Beekeepers will ensure their attention and competency enables the highest standard of husbandry, and will continuously improve their knowledge, observation, and expertise in order to anticipate, recognise, reduce, or remove instances of stress, malnutrition, death or disease. [*]Honeybees will be housed in hives that allow beekeepers to monitor and care for their bees and that allow them to respond to change in their environment, exhibiting their full range of normal, observable, natural behaviour, including but not limited to, nest construction, feeding, growth, movement, communication, learning, and reproduction. [*]Honeybee hives will be designed, constructed and used so that they facilitate the seasonal biological requirements for colony growth and reproduction, defence from predation and disease, and protection from unfavourable exposure to the elements. [*]A beekeeper will choose sites for their hive(s) that provide the bees with access to collect food, water, and materials they need, and will act to supplement, manage and conserve the ecosystems that sustain sites providing resources for their honeybees. [*]As far as possible, the aim of all interventions a beekeeper may make will contribute to and not reduce the long-term well-being of a colony or the apiary of which it is a part. [*]Sustainably harvesting resources from a hive must be achieved without undermining the integrity and stability of the colony, recognising its contribution in a complex ecosystem and own intrinsic value. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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