Lincolnshire Echo “Crops Threatened by Vanishing Honey Bees” – April 12, 2008

NEWS: Germany

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Star Tribune, Terry Collins – March 31, 2008

Iva Weir, Star Tribune

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TheDailyGreen.com “2008 Buffalo Death Toll Highest in Century” – April 11, 2008

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Minneapolis Public Radio piece with audio by Tom Robertson – March 25, 2008

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Press Release from Indian government

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From November 2007 – Kim Flottum, editor of Bee Culture magazine, posts as “The Beekeeper” on TheDailyGreen.com. This piece is a good place to start for info on CCD:

Colony Collapse Disorder Goes Mainstream

Other reading:

New York Times “Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril” – February 2007

Science Daily piece with video – July 2007

Bend Weekly piece with good survey-type info and graphic – April, 2008

BATS DYING

A newer phenomenon. Start here:

New York Times “Bats Perish and No One Knows Why” – March 25, 2008

Natural News “First it was bees, now its bats” – April 11, 2008

LOONS DYING

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Thousands of Loons Dying in Great Lakes Area” – Dec. 29, 2007

Star Tribune “Are Lake Superior’s Loons Next?” – Dec. 8, 2007

Government Groups:

• NY State Department of Environmental Conservation
• United States Geological Survey
• United States Fish and Wildlife Survey (state by state)
  
• Center for Disease Control
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Department of Natural Resources (Michigan)

Boards & Orgs:

• Bat Conservation Trust (UK)
  
• Bat Conservation International
• The National Honey Board
• American Beekeeping Federation
• Entomological Society of America
• Humane Society
• Canadian Lakes Loon Survey
• Loon Watch
• Loons Dying

Media Sources:

• Nature
• Science
• Seed
• Scientific American
• National Geographic
• BATS Magazine
• First Nature, Windows on Wildlife
• Wild Bird Magazine
• Birdwatchers Digest
• Bee Culture
• American Bee Journal

Research and Info:

• Wildlife Search
• Everything About: Honey Bee
• The Extinction Website
• Extinct Animal
• Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education – Bangalore, India
• Mongabay

Bloggers and Miscellany:

• Smoking Mirrors (covered CCD)

Michigan Loon Preservation Association

Haagen-Dasz’ Help the Honey Bees

Honey Bee Quiet

Yell Cave Bat Protection Project