According to the United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, the number of honeybees declined by 60 percent since 1947.
Over the last decade, some environmental activists and scientists pointed to the negative effects of neonicotinoid pesticides as potential reasons for the declines in honeybee colonies.
But some members of the San Mateo beekeeper’s guild are citing other explanations — some point to more recent studies that show starvation rather than pesticides as a potential cause for bee die-offs.
At the end of the day, according to experts, it may not be one specific reason, but a combination of several factors that’s impacting the honeybee population.
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Salma Loum graduated from Misr International University with a bachelor’s degree in radio and television with a focus on documentary filmmaking. She moved from Cairo, Egypt to the United States at the age of 21 after covering the Egyptian Revolutions from 2011 to 2013. During that time, she worked as a war zone camera operator at Sky News Arabia, BBC Arabia and multiple local news channels. After moving to the U.S., she shifted her career to cinematography and filmmaking, which has been her passion for the last five years. She joined the master’s program as her focus shifted towards human and animals rights’ violations. Her interests include yoga, hiking and traveling the world. She is excited to use the skills she learns at Stanford University to create effective stories about human rights’ violations around the world.
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