The colective Breeders of Canarian Black Bee (Crianca) requests to promote the declaration of Tenerife as a unique reserve for the protection, conservation, recovery and selection of this native insect, the apis mellifera canariensis. they support it 1,500 signatures of support popular and the institutional arrope of municipalities in the south such as Granadilla, San Miguel, Arona, Adeje, Guía de Isora and Santiago del Teide.
The petition was officially presented with the support of the Granadilla council, through its mayor, José Domingo Regalado, who was accompanied by the association’s president, Juan Morales.
The proposal will be sent to Canary Islands Government, the Cabildo and the Ministries of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, as well as the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. The objective is to ensure that Tenerife, and if possible the entire Archipelago, becomes a base for the conservation, recovery and selection of this endemism, considered to be the best bee in the world for its durability and absence of aggressiveness.
Regalado described the request as a “historic step” and congratulated Crianca, whose headquarters are in the municipality, “for his great work.” He added that “he has always had the support of the city council, which is in addition to this proposal.”
Juan Morales argued that the bee “is considered the most valuable insect for the human being and nature as a fundamental link in the food chain”. Thanks to its tireless pollination work, it guarantees more than 40% of food production and 80% of plants depend on this process. It is the first link in life, the most studied and the least known.
The beekeeping In the Canary Islands, the last few decades have seen an excessive introduction of foreign breeds with one consequence: the gradual eradication of the local ones. This increases the danger of extinction of the black bee. The main objective of Crianca has been and is the protection, breeding and utilization of this endemism in the traditional agriculture of Tenerife.
