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Wednesday March 3, 2021, 10:32 AM
The UK and Overseas Territories Conservation Forum will take place between 2 to 10 March 2021. Credit: Pollinator Project
Guernsey scientist Dr Miranda Bane will represent the Bailiwick at an international conservation conference in March 2021.
The forum exists to promote the conservation of diverse and increasingly threatened plant and animal species and natural habitats.
It provides expertise, information and practical help to the various jurisdictions in the UK and in the Territories.
We will talk about the challenges and solutions to island conservation. We are lucky that we do not have to cope with natural disasters like erupting volcanoes and hurricanes with other island are faced with. One of Guernsey s great challenges is a lack of understanding of what is happening to pollinators. I ll be presenting some of our work that has helped us address this issue.
Letter: Bees and neonicotinoids MR Diggens ( Things are not always what they seem Craven Herald letters, January 21), in response to my letter the previous week about the use of neonicotinoids on sugar beet, seems to imply that there is a place for party politics in this debate. The purpose of my letter was to draw attention to the threat to bee populations caused by the government’s authorisation (albeit on a limited scale) for the chemical to be used. As Mr Diggens correctly points out various EU countries have also allowed use of the chemical under ‘emergency authorisation’; but two wrongs don’t make a right and my concern is that it is disappointing that our government should follow the same route of reaching for ‘the chemical gun’ as a first response to the problem.