“A call was made to not exterminate the bees, which is a regular observe alongside many building firms, however fairly save the bees and relocate them,” stated Alex Volobuev, venture supervisor for Ameresco, a photo voltaic venture contractor working in partnership with the U.S. Navy.
Ameresco contacted knowledgeable beekeeper who got here out the identical day and introduced a brand new beehive to supply a brand new house for the bees at a bee farm situated on the North Shore of Oahu. The beekeeper was capable of acquire 97% of the bees, together with the queen bee, estimating a complete of 500,000 bees.
“We’re technically simply transferring the bees from the pile of rocks or beneath the trailer to a bee field and taking them to a ‘Bee’fugee,” stated Stanislav Abdullin, proprietor and beekeeper for HI Honey Farms. “That’s what we name a separate location the place we deal with them and handle them, ensuring they don’t have any illness so that they don’t contaminate the principle apiary.”
“We’re elevating them till they’re prepared to offer us some great honey,” Abdullin added.
In accordance with Volobuev, bee relocation helps the neighborhood and protects the atmosphere by preserving honeybee populations for pollination, sustaining biodiversity, defending native bee species, enhancing meals manufacturing whereas decreasing pesticide use, guaranteeing public security by eradicating hives from inconvenient areas, and offering instructional alternatives for the neighborhood.
“Defending bees brings quite a few benefits for our communities and the atmosphere,” stated Volobuev. “Saving bees yields advantages like improved crop manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, wildlife habitat preservation, native bee conservation, and scientific progress. Defending bees is significant for a more healthy atmosphere.”
Whereas persevering with to guard our surroundings, the Kupono Photo voltaic venture would hook up with Hawaiian Electrical Firm’s Oahu grid for 20 years to be used by the general public and the U.S. Navy. The venture is proposed for growth by Ameresco Inc. and Vibrant Canyon Power Company, which might assemble, personal and function 42 megawatts of renewable vitality.
When full, the venture’s renewable vitality will provide energy to Oahu’s native grid, powering 10,000 houses, decreasing greater than 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide yearly from Hawaii’s atmosphere – equal to offsetting carbon dioxide emissions from 12,000 vehicles yearly.
Along with saving the bees on Oahu, the Pacific Missile Vary Facility (PMRF) on Barking Sands, Kauai, one among Navy Area Hawaii’s installations, additionally has a program to assist protect the bees which is absolutely maintained and operated by volunteers.
The crops discovered on the set up are all pollinated by the bees that dwell on the bottom and their hives come from the pollination of kiawe the place recent honey is produced. Though recent honey is produced and capable of take house in jars, the principle intent of this system shouldn’t be revenue, it’s preservation.
