A Dutch beekeeper has spoken of his shock after his 10 beehives had been burned down in a park within the central metropolis of Almere, with the lack of an estimated half one million bees.
Harold Stringer mentioned every hive had a colony of 40-60,000 bees, and the thought that anybody may kill them was horrific.
“It actually hurts that my 10 hives have died,” he advised native broadcaster Omroep Flevoland.
Police in Almere, which sits to the east of Amsterdam, have appealed for witnesses after the arson assault on Tuesday night within the metropolis’s scenic Beatrixpark. They posted photos of the hearth on social media.
The Dutch authorities says greater than half of the nation’s 360 species of bee are prone to extinction, because the inhabitants of bees declines all over the world.
Mr Stringer mentioned police had advised him an accelerant had been used to burn the hives, which had been sitting on pallets in a wooded a part of the park.
Barely any of the bees survived and he mentioned that he had little religion the arsonist can be caught.
Fellow beekeeper Heleen Nieman advised Dutch radio that she had three bee colonies and needed to offer him certainly one of them.
For Mr Stringer, who taken care of the bees for about 9 years, the hearth means beginning a brand new colony within the park from scratch.
However he insists he is not going to surrender.