{"id":54510,"date":"2023-04-22T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/22\/cyclone-damage-shows-new-zealands-beekeepers-are-unprepared-for-climate-change"},"modified":"2023-04-22T05:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T20:00:50","slug":"cyclone-damage-shows-new-zealands-beekeepers-are-unprepared-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54510","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone damage shows New Zealand\u2019s beekeepers are unprepared for climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of hives in remote areas still unreachable and full scale of devastation remains unknown<\/p>\n<p>Two months after a cyclone swept away thousands of beehives in the fertile fruit bowl of New Zealand\u2019s North Island and left thousands more unreachable, beekeepers are facing a painful and costly recovery that has prompted questions of how they will adapt to the intensifying climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/cyclone-gabrielle\">Cyclone Gabrielle<\/a> roared across the North Island in February, killing 11 people and wreaking billions of dollars in damage, it tore apart the orchards and vineyards of Hawke\u2019s Bay and the East Coast \u2013 where pip fruit, kiwifruit and wine are export earners \u2013 and destroyed 5,000 to 6,000 of the beehives that pollinate them. It represented \u201cseverity and damage that \u2026 has not been experienced in a generation\u201d, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/13\/cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-declares-national-state-of-emergency\">prime minister, Chris Hipkins, said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/22\/cyclone-damage-shows-new-zealands-beekeepers-are-unprepared-for-climate-change\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of hives in remote areas still unreachable and full scale of devastation remains unknownTwo months after a cyclone swept away thousands of beehives in the fertile fruit bowl of New Zealand\u2019s North Island and left thousands more unreachable, b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1620,2852,65,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bees","category-cyclone-gabrielle","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54511,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54510\/revisions\/54511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}