{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-c03aa079.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-517835be.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Paris is abuzz with bees' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c0d1d8eafeecae14d94c' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c0d1d8eafeecae14d94c' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nParis is abuzz with bees\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eParis, France, 2 September 20091. Mid shot beekeeper Nicolas Geant on the roof of the Grand Palais2. Close up bees3. Various exteriors Grand Palais4. Pan from Eiffel Tower to beekeeper Nicolas Geant on the terrace of the Grand Palais5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eParis, France, 2 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid shot beekeeper Nicolas Geant on the roof of the Grand Palais\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up bees\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various exteriors Grand Palais\u003cbr/\u003e4. Pan from Eiffel Tower to beekeeper Nicolas Geant on the terrace of the Grand Palais\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of Geant harvesting the honey from the beehives\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (French) Nicolas Geant, Beekeeper:\u003cbr/\u003e\"These days you don't have many small flowers left in the countryside because you have a lot of cultivated fields, whereas in cities you have a lot of little flowers, on balconies, in parks, in the streets you have trees like lime trees and chestnut, which are great for bees. So bees produce more in cities, 405 times more in cities than in the countryside. And the second reason is pollution. Certainly, Paris is polluted with fumes but far less than in the countryside where pesticides kill our bees. You currently have, not only in France but everywhere in the world, 30 to 50% of the bee colonies die.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid shot flowers with street behind\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up flowers with cars driving behind\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various close ups flower with bee on it\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (French) Nicolas Geant, Beekeeper:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our bees live very well in the city whereas our bees in the countryside die so something should change, especially when it comes to pesticides.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Tilt up from honeycomb smoker\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid shot Geant showing honeycomb\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close up honeycomb\u003cbr/\u003eParis, France 26 August 2009\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide pan of Luxembourg Garden\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of people relaxing in the park\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of beekeepers in the Luxembourg Garden harvesting honey\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Sandmeyer, Beekeeper\u003cbr/\u003e\"Nowadays bees, like many other insects and animals, are endangered for various reasons. Climate change, monocultures in the countryside, the intensive use of pesticides for 20 or 30 years and other pathological factors that attack bees. Currently in the south-west of France bees are facing vespa velutina, which is an asian hornet that arrived in France five years ago.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various of beekeepers extracting honey from the combs inside the Luxembourg Garden\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Marie Le Groux, Beekeeper\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's Paris honey. So it means that it's honey produced in the city, where we have lots of gardens and parks and flowers all over the place and practically no pesticides, no chemicals, nothing. Things have changed a lot in Paris over the years and basically our honey is really what you would call organic, although it's a honey that is made in the city. It's excellent.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of honey being extracted and poured from container\u003cbr/\u003eThe Grand Palais in Paris is buzzing with activity. \u003cbr/\u003eThis jewel in the Parisian crown usually exhibits world famous artists such as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.\u003cbr/\u003eBut now it has become the permanent home to more than 140,000 bees. \u003cbr/\u003eHigh above Paris there's a buzz in the air. \u003cbr/\u003eThese beehives have an exclusive postal address - situated as they are on the Grand Palais.\u003cbr/\u003eApiculture, or the rearing and management of bees, is flourishing in the French capital.\u003cbr/\u003eCurrently there are close to 300 in Paris, according to the French National Association of Beekeepers. \u003cbr/\u003eSome of the largest of these beehives are housed in unusual locations like the Grand Palais, or on the rooftops of the city's two opera houses, the Garnier and the Bastille.\u003cbr/\u003eBeekeeper Nicolas Geant, who has 25 years of experience under his belt, is responsible for the bees atop the Grand Palais. \u003cbr/\u003eHis first harvest was September 2. \u003cbr/\u003eHe wanted to install beehives in the city because he says urban beehives are more productive than hives in the countryside. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to Union of French Apiarists, the mortality rate for city bees is only six percent, compared to thirty-three percent for their cousins in the countryside.\u003cbr/\u003eNot only are the city bees living longer, they're also producing more honey- Parisian apiarists claim that some of their hives yield about 100 kilos of honey a year, almost five times the amount produced by bees in the countryside. \u003cbr/\u003eThe lack of predators and pesticides, as well as a profusion of flowers and a longer flowering season, owing to the city's warmer climate, all contribute to the improved productivity of urban bees. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd government-backed testing has confirmed that Parisian honey contains surprisingly little traces of pollutants. \u003cbr/\u003eOther hives are dotted around the city, on hotel and apartment rooftops, where they are harvested by the city's growing swarm of apicultural enthusiasts. \u003cbr/\u003eThe rise in urban bee cultivation comes at the same time that experts fear that bees in France are being threatened by Asian hornets, particularly in south-western France. \u003cbr/\u003eJust a few hornets have been known to destroy entire beehives in a couple of days, and scientists fear that as the decline of bees will adversely affect the  agricultural industries that rely on them for pollination. \u003cbr/\u003eThe modern day Parisian beekeepers are part of a rich tradition of apiculture in the city, which traces its roots back to 1856. \u003cbr/\u003eThat was the year Henri Hamet, a French biologist, founded the Socit Centrale d'Apiculture (Central Apicultural Society), which started beehives and a school of beekeeping in the regal Luxembourg Garden. \u003cbr/\u003eHamet's school and hives, which underwent a facelift in 1991, are thriving today, brimming not only with the bees but also with students eager to pay the 160 euros ($227 USD) it costs to learn the secrets of beekeeping. \u003cbr/\u003eMarie Le Groux, a former student and beekeeper who helped with this year's harvest, says interest in the school was strong and that they had a waiting list of more than a hundred applicants.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Jardin du Luxembourg beehives produce 600 to 700 kilos of honey per harvest. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to Alain Sandmeyer, one of the volunteer instructors at Luxembourg, plants, trees and shrubbery are sparser in rural areas, thus attracting fewer bees. \u003cbr/\u003eFurthermore, bees in the countryside are dying off from pesticides and fertilizers associated with farmland. Pesticides are not allowed in Luxembourg.\u003cbr/\u003eUrban beekeeping is not unique to France. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's a common practice in big cities across the world, including Berlin, London, Tokyo and Washington D.C. 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