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The state's beekeepers are sceptical about whether the recommendations of a new Commonwealth report will be adopted in Tasmania.
A Federal Parliamentary committee has been investigating the challenges facing the honey bee industry in Australia.
One of its 25 recommendations is that beekeepers be allowed access to protected forest areas to enlarge the area available to them.
Bob Davey from the Tasmanian Save Your Leatherwood Honey Association says it is a great idea but he doubts it will happen.
"The report talked about access to heritage and protected reserve areas to enlarge the resource space that would be available to beekeepers," Mr Davey said.
"So that would be a brilliant result. But in Tasmania where there's been a big effort and fight to have the world heritage areas and reserves created I think it will be a quite a while before there's a change in culture," he said.
A Federal Parliamentary committee has been investigating the challenges facing the honey bee industry in Australia.
One of its 25 recommendations is that beekeepers be allowed access to protected forest areas to enlarge the area available to them.
Bob Davey from the Tasmanian Save Your Leatherwood Honey Association says it is a great idea but he doubts it will happen.
"The report talked about access to heritage and protected reserve areas to enlarge the resource space that would be available to beekeepers," Mr Davey said.
"So that would be a brilliant result. But in Tasmania where there's been a big effort and fight to have the world heritage areas and reserves created I think it will be a quite a while before there's a change in culture," he said.
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Be careful beekeepers of Tasmania. If genetically modified grain comes into Tasmania, be prepared to lose your bees the same that has been happening all over the world. The pro-GM scientists deny this, but there is clear evidence that when a bee has a virus (non lethal) and then collects pollen from a GM paddock, they die. It requires the two scenarios to occur rather than just the GM. It is believed that the immune system is affected.
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