When did you meet your first bee?
I started at the young age of 12. I had the desire to set up a hive. It didn’t run in my family or anything, I was just thrilled to discover bees, to observe them in my garden. My first objective was not to make honey, but to be in contact with the bees. It was a child's whim I suppose, which eventually turned into an interest thanks to a solid framework. It grew little by little, and today I have around fifty hives.
Why are bees so important to biodiversity?
We're already dependent on them: 80% of pollination is carried out by bees. And without pollination, there won't be any flowers, fruits or vegetables, we could even loose meat. It affects every sector, every diet. Bees are the catalyst for biodiversity. They are there to join the whole ecosystem together. If you take them out of the picture, everything else will fall apart.