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If you read the news about honeybee survival, it's all very confusing. The Hoover Institution's Dr. ...
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If you read the news about honeybee survival, it's all very confusing.
The Hoover Institution's Dr. Henry Miller notes “The reality is that honeybee populations are not declining. According to U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) statistics,the world's honeybee population rose to 80 million colonies(群落) in 2011 from 50 million in1960.”Meanwhile Jennifer Sass of the Natural Resources Defense Council points out “The number of managed honeybee colonies in the U. S. has dropped from four million hives(蜂群) in 1970 to 2.5 million today.”
Surprisingly, both of these claims are correct. Miller points to the “global” commercial honeybee-hive count, which has grown considerably. Sass points to domestic colony numbers only, which have in fact declined.
Far more bees are farmed for making honey than for pollination(传粉) services. Since more honey is now made overseas than it was in the past, more hives are kept overseas, and fewer in the United States and Europe. And the global number of commercial hives and honey they produce has grown to meet the demands of an expanding world population. Such shifts offer no evidence of a honeybee hive crisis. They simply represent the market forces of supply and demand.
The FAO data also clarify that national or even regional declines in the size of the managed honeybee population cannot prove claims of a global pollinator decline or a pollination crisis. However, it emphasizes that solutions to those problems must be motivated locally, rather than globally.
Solutions will follow only if we take a non-subjective look at the issues, so we can address them appropriately rather than have a crisis mentality. As I highlight in a recent post for The Hill,a big part of the solution lies at the very local level: with the beekeepers, farmers, and communities that surround them.
1.What makes the news confusing?
A.Various species. B.Different affects.
C.Complicated statistics. D.Contradictory conclusions.
2.What contributes to the growth of commercial hives?
A.The claims of the FAO.
B.The shift of honey export.
C.The increasing demands of honey.
D.The more services of pollination.
3.What's the author's attitude to the honeybee population issue?
A.Supportive. B.Objective.
C.Confused. D.Doubtful.
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A.Honeybee Crisis Solved or Not?
B.Honeybee Population Declining or Not?
C.Honeybee Market Global or Local?
D.Honeybee Research Global or Local?
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