Like most of the beekeepers in Tasmania, they set up their hives along logging roads in the forest, because their bees collect nectar and pollen from flowering leatherwood trees. Leatherwood grows ...

A Tasmanian beekeeper is going to extreme lengths to ensure his bees can collect pollen from leatherwood trees found in remote parts of the state's rainforest. Lindsay Bourke moves some of his ...

About 70 per cent of the state's honey production relies on the annual flowering of the leatherwood trees. Now extreme heat and damaging fires have crippled the once-blossoming industry.

Hives have been wiped out along with large amounts of valuable leatherwood trees that are expected to take more than 100 years to recover. About 70 per cent of the state's honey is produced using ...

Bushfires destroyed many leatherwood trees, honey yields were drastically down and many beekeepers are still feeding their bees sugar and water to keep them alive. President of the Australian ...