Wild honey bees reclassified as ‘critically endangered’

A study by Agroscope Zurich and the University of Hohenheim, Germany, shows a significant decline in wild honeybee colonies in Europe. The honeybee is classified as critically endangered, the Swiss organisation FreeTheBees announced on Tuesday. The organisation, which is explicitly committed to protecting wild honeybees, cites the threat classification of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The bee conservationists recommend that wild honey bees be recognised as part of...

By swissinfo.ch