Training on Techniques of Eco Friendly Wild Honey Harvesting
- Capacity Building Series (2007- 2008)
(27-29 December 2007, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India)
Due to the lack of awareness and alternative scientific methods, honey is
still being gathered from wild bees by smoking and burning methods. This
causes tremendous loss to ecosystem because burning of adult bees hampers
the natural process of cross-pollination in flowering vegetation and it also
leads to big forest fires especially during the summer months. Very
recently, bee-scientists have developed eco-friendly management practices
even for wild bee-species like Apis dorsata.
A workshop “Forest Fires
in India” was held in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, 19 to 23 February 2007 for the
preparation of a research project on wild land fires in India. The
proceedings comprise extended abstracts of the presentations made during the
workshop and a summary of the discussions during the workshop. The workshop
was organized by the Institute of Silviculture, University of
Freiburg(Germany), ATREE Bangalore and Delhi (India) and the Evergreen
Trust, Genguvarpatti (India). It was supported by funds from the Foundation
for Ecological Security, Anand (India) and ATREE.
