"The importance of the #apiculture sector is far greater than its contribution to GDP, as over 80 percent of #crop yields and 75 percent of European food production depend on 🐝bee #pollination." —Minister of Agriculture of Hungary 🇭🇺 István Nagy euobserver.com/opinion/14660…

[Opinion] European beekeeping in crisis

Europe's bee population is dying. The number of pollinator species threatened by extinction is increasing each year, and human activity is the main cause.

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This is mixing up beekeeping with the issues facing wild bees and other pollinators. Not only that, but the statistics are incorrect. I expect better of IPBES!
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Replying to @JeffOllerton
Hi Jeff - thanks as always for engaging. The piece is an Opinion-editorial by the Enviro Minister of an IPBES member State - it’s shared to alert our community to a viewpoint - not to endorse the stats (as u know IPBES has a lengthy Report on this from 2016)

Nov 18, 2019 · 3:24 PM UTC

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As explained in other parts of this thread, our approach to sharing on Twitter aims, among others, to alert our wider community to key perspectives from important voices - even when those don’t align with our own Reports. This approach will continue.