Save the Bees Australia has collaborated with the Tasmanian Bee Collective giving you a chance to taste this wild and unique honey in the hope it will help you join our fight for the Forrest.  

 

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Leatherwood nectar is highly valued not just for its taste, twice winning best honey in the world ,’ it also underpins Tasmania’s food security with the state’s AgriVision target for an agricultural sector worth $10 billion per annum at the farm gate by 2050.  Bees are integral in providing pollination services towards realising this vision. 

 

Leatherwood (eucrphyia lucida) is a rainforest tree that has evolved deep in Tasmania’s Gondwanan rainforest.

 

It’s  flowers transform sparse,sticky branches into large floating moth-like white blossoms, lighting up gullies and in the process turning this remote wilderness into a beacon for pollinators, especially bees.

 

Leatherwood is not only rich in nectar, but also flowers at a time that bees need to build their strength leading up to Tasmania’s long cold winter.

 

These forests are under significant threat.

 

Bushfires and climate change are a real and imminent threat, form only part of the story.  

 

Tasmania has a long and contentious forestry history.  Often referred to as the ‘forestry wars’- for decades the Forest industry and conservationists have been locked in an all or nothing battle.

 

Beekeepers, like Leatherwood trees, have been caught in the middle of this battle.  

 

Beekeepers need access to the Leatherwood  forests growing amongst ancient Eucalypt trees that continue to be logged. 

 

Unfortunately, Leatherwood is continuing to be logged at an alarming rate and becoming collateral damage in these highly connected and specialised ecosystems.

 

Leatherwood trees take up to 20 years to produce nectar.

 

Bob Davey, founder of ‘Save our Leatherwood’ explains here important leatherwood trees are to beekeepers and our agricultural sector.  

 

What does this mean for the future?

 

Now, more than ever we need your support.

 

 

 

Help us by signing this petition to protect the Leatherwood forrests. 

 

It will take all of us to stop politicians from re-igniting the forestry wars.  We need leadership to realise our AgriVisiontarget, not divisive political positioning. 

 

Please taste this threatened landscape  $1 from each sale donated to Save the Bees Australia.

 

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Help us to raise awareness about the importance of leatherwood trees to bees, beekeepers and our agriculture industry.