Beemergency Project

The Sydney Club as generously donated a thousand dollars to help kick start the Beemergency Project run by our local bee hero, Gavin Smith.  

As well as the long drought, bush fires and floods added further destruction of habitats and the death of millions of bees of all types.  Beemergency was set up in response to this environmental disaster.  With help from branches of the Men’s Shed (Hunters Hill, Leichhardt, Pyrmont, Ultimo, Glebe, Canada Bay and Waverley) nucleus hives have been built for beekeepers in the bush who lost their hives and bee hotels have been built for our native bees.  More than 150 nucleus hives have been built and painted.  The first hundred have been delivered to Elands, inland from Taree.

The ABA and other Men’s Sheds are now helping by contacting other groups in fire affected areas.to join the project. Donations have been coming in from many interested people. Online stories about the project have been published by the ABC country news, the NRMA and the Men’s Shed News.

If you would like to know more or donate to Beemergency, get in touch with Gavin Smith via the contact form