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What Is Killing Our Bees? (Seminar)

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Monday, April 27, 2009

12pm to 1pm

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Seminar Details An update on the problems afflicting our bee populations.  

Lecturer Paul van Westendorp has been involved in beekeeping since childhood. While enrolled at UBC's Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in the 1970s, he had a summer job with the BC Ministry of Agriculture doing field trials and apiary inspections. In the early 1980s, he became an Apiculture Research Assistant at the Agriculture Canada Research Station, Beaverlodge, Alberta. Between 1985 and 1987 he was involved in a beekeeping development project with CARE in Uganda and Kenya. In the late 1980s he was the Provincial Apiculturist in Alberta, until 1990 when accepted his current position as the Provincial Apiculturist of British Columbia.  

Location At the Botanical Garden Reception Centre, near the main entrance (Directions to the Botanical Garden)  

Cost Free  

Please Note Bring a bag lunch. Coffee supplied. Please call 604-822-3928 or email the in advance to book a seat.  

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