Sustainable Bees: Global Environmentalist, Sir Tim Smit, shares his thoughts on NatBIP 

We are now taking forward our flagship National Bee Improvement Programme
(NatBIP) into its next phase and, as part of this, we need promote our message
about native honey bees and bee improvement to a much wider audience. We are
therefore very pleased that Sir Tim Smit (from the Eden Project) offered to help us
promote that message through this short video. Although he is not a beekeeper
himself, he is an environmentalist of global standing and has been a long-standing
supporter of our aims and objectives. He has helped to establish reserves for the
native honey bee at both the Eden Project and at the Lost Gardens of Helligan in
Cornwall.
The last edition of BIBBA Monthly featured our new approach to taking forward
BIBBA’s long-standing Aims and Objectives by adopting ‘Four Sustainabilities’, which
of course, includes our commitment to sustainable native and near-native honey
bees. This commitment is at the core of why BIBBA exists and what it does. NatBIP
will enable us to promote locally adapted bees as an alternative to imports and take
us towards beekeeping based on native and near-native bees. We hope you enjoy
our video.
Selwyn Runnett - Chair
Nick Bentham-Green - Lead Trustee for NatBIP #sustainablebeekeeping #bibba #beekeeping #bees