The Galtee Bee Breeding Group (GBBG) was formed in 1991 with the object of conservation, study and improvement of the native strains of Dark European Honey bee in the Galtee/Vee Valley and surrounding area of South Tipperary, Ireland. In the first year we had only four members and our membership increased gradually during the early years. After the Bee Improvement and Bee Breeding Association Conference in our area in 1996 we decided to invite some more prominent and active Irish beekeep-srs to joinus and we have continued this policy up to :he present. We now have about 60 members mostly in the provinces of Munster and Leinster and this year ive have been joined by two members from Ulster. In all about 20 Beekeepers' Associations are represented among our members. We enjoy the full support and co-Dperation of the two main bee-peeping umbrella Drganisations in Ireland i.e. the Federation of Irish Bee-keepers' Associations in the Republic of Ireland and the Ulster Beekeepers Associa
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