Mass honeybee deaths now occurring worldwide, says UN

Mass honeybee deaths now occurring worldwide, says UN: "NaturalNews) For several decades, colony collapse disorder (CCD) -- a mysterious condition where entire bee colonies die for seemingly no obvious reason -- has been inflicting bee populations across both Europe and the US. But scientists from the United Nations (UN) say the phenomenon is now a global crisis, afflicting bees across China, Japan, and Africa, as well as in other places.

The report, issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), explains what many NaturalNews readers already know -- mainly that without bees, there will be no more food. Bees are one of nature's primary pollinators, and over 70 percent of the world's food supply relies on them to grow.

'Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature,' said Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director. 'Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature's services in a world of close to seven billion people.'"