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The Irish Bee Conservation Project is a charitable organisation in Ireland that seeks to conserve all native Irish bee species. It has four "pillars of support" in its work: providing habitats, increasing biodiversity, holding education events and performing research into the decline of bee species. [ 1 ]
It is an endangered species in Ireland. [3] [4] In Great Britain, it survives on the far north Highlands coast, Orkney, and the Western Isles. [5] References
Within Northern Ireland there is the acceptance that some Non-Native animals, such as Honey Bees, are "important to the economy", [41] while within the Republic of Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's website refers to the honey bee, and in particular the sub-species A. m. mellifera as the "Native Irish Honey Bee ...
Many promoters of the A. m. mellifera claim that the sub-species is endangered and under threat from imports, even though DNA analysis has been able to show that the amount of non-A. m. mellifera DNA within local populations of A. m. mellifera remains relatively low, [46] with an Irish survey showing that 97.8% of sampled bees were determined ...
Ballyteigue Burrow was legally protected as a national nature reserve by the Irish government in 1987. [1] The site has also been designated a Special Area of Conservation. [2] The site has been assessed as being of international importance due to the variety of physical features including dune slacks, salt marshes, sand dunes, and mudflats. [3]
Similar declines have been reported in Ireland, with four species designated endangered, and another two considered vulnerable to extinction. [122] A decline in bumblebee numbers could cause large-scale changes to the countryside, resulting from inadequate pollination of certain plants. [123]
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This is a list of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species.Some suffer because of loss of habitat, but many are in decline following the introduction of foreign species, which out-compete the native species or carry disease.