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Australia is also a popular place for beekeeping, with an estimated 9,600 registered beekeepers across the country.
They produce the 30,000 tonnes of honey made here annually, with an estimated value of $50 million. Around a quarter of that goes overseas and Australia is the world’s tenth largest exporter of honey.
But, like the United States in Ginny Stein’s report, beekeepers here are also facing problems, not only from pesticides threatening colonies, but also from bushfires and drought.
To find out more about beekeeping in Australia, both as a hobby and business, click on the links below.
Australian Honey Bee Industry Council
Victorian Apiarists Association
Melbourne Beekeepers Club
Amateur Beekeepers Association of New South Wales
Beekeepers Association of the ACT
Beekeepers Society of South Australia
South Australian Apiarists' Association
West Australian Apiarists' Society
The Australasian Beekeeper is a national magazine and has a list of contacts for beekeeping in other parts of Australia.
HoneyBee Australis sells beekeeping equipment and also has links to other beekeeping groups around the country.
BKeeping.net provides beekeeping software and was also the source of many of the facts and figures above.
To find out more about the beekeepers in our report, go to the website of the New York City Beekeepers Association.
