Via a petition for commercial beekeeper Dolfi. 

 I am updating you on the events of October 7, and can confirm that Dolfi’s bees were killed. However, this is not the end. While this is the story of just one family, this problem will continue to effect other bees and beekeepers in the state for years to come.

Sydney-local Dolfi has 60 healthy hives located in Jilliby on the Central Coast, and has been beekeeping for many years, carrying on the work of his father and his grandfather. Dolfi has invested many years of hard work establishing a successful small boutique business, producing and selling quality honey, with many loyal customers. 

The family is asking that you continue to share the petition to demand the DPI abandon this policy. Killing bees is not the solution. 

A statement from the family:

“Our precious healthy bees are dead, and their hives are wrapped in black plastic.

They were destroyed by the DPI officers, who were accompanied by the police on Friday 7 Oct.

There are so many trees flowering around them, and it would have been an amazing season. All is lost.

It’s disheartening, difficult to comprehend and will have a long lasting impact on our lives.

We are grateful for your support, signing this petition, and for those who contributed insightful comments and/or money to promote it. Thank you!

Your support has given us great comfort and strength.

For the DPI it might be the end but for us it’s just the beginning…

We will continue advocating for change of policy, including:

Make safe treatment options and training available to beekeepers
Better compensation for affected beekeepers
Roll back restrictions and facilitate a quicker path to recovery (currently not allowed to re-establish hives in eradication zones for a minimum of 3 years!)
We’ll be grateful if there is anyone else you can share this petition with.

Please pass it on and share widely, thank you!”

- Dolfi and his family

Poisoning program started.
The first round of bait stations to be deployed are in the Jerrys Plains area. These bait
stations will be operational from early October for up to 12 months.
As the plan rolls out across the eradication zones over the next few months, DPI will notify registered beekeepers within proximity to where bait stations will be deployed and are directly contacting landholders where bait stations are to be installed.

Officers are accessing properties to place fipronil baits in the red eradication emergency zone. 

Bait stations will be placed in an 8 km radius from an infected premises. There will be a 2 km buffer between bait stations and the purple notification emergency zone.