500,000 Honeybees Perish in Netherlands Deliberate Blaze.
A beekeeper from the Netherlands has expressed shock after his ten colonies were burned down in a park in the central city of Almere, resulting in the loss of an approximated half a million bees.
The beekeeper mentioned that every colony contained a colony of 40-60,000 bees, and the thought that anyone could destroy them was devastating.
"It really hurts that my ten colonies have died," he told regional media.
Police in Almere, which sits to the east of Amsterdam, have requested observers after the deliberate fire on Tuesday night in the city's picturesque Beatrixpark. They posted pictures of the fire on social media.
The Netherlands authorities says that over 50% of the country's 360 species of bee are at risk of dying out, as the number of bees decreases around the world.
Mr Stringer said that police had told him an flammable substance had been employed to burn the colonies, which were sitting on pallets in a wooded part of the garden.
Almost none of the bees made it through and he said that he had doubt the arsonist would be caught.
Fellow beekeeper Heleen Nieman stated on national radio that she had three hives and planned to give him a colony.
For Mr Stringer, who cared for the bees for about almost a decade, the fire means building a new colony in the area from the beginning.
But he affirms he will not give up.
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