Media Coverage

This week we got the chance to catch up with Neal McAloon from Bee The Change. His social enterprise uses apiculture as a medium for environmental education through beehive sponsorship. Educational signage is installed at the corporate hive locations as a way to inform the public on the vital apiculture industry. Neal’s also working to build an infrastructure of hives so in the future he could be in a position to assist with global apiculture issues – sending hibes around the world.

Social entrepreneurs strive to address pressing social and environmental issues while creating economic opportunities. Maureen Howard asks six how they include doing good in what they do.

Innovative Queenstown hospitality operators had decided to Bee The Change and help save the bees, prior to the country’s Covid-19 crisis - a move that for one at least had already brought positive attention.

An Irishman who moved to Queenstown less than 10 years ago is working hard to Bee The Change locally in saving the Wakatipu’s dwindling bee populations. Neal McAloon is passionate about protecting the beautiful natural Wakatipu environment that brought him here to settle in 2011 and is now doing more than many Kiwis to protect the basin’s ecology.

There’s a stiff crack as the tool snaps the lid open. The hum intensifies. A few puffs of smoke and the hum mellows. Looking down you can see high peaks of waxon the frames and hundreds of bees spilling over the box.

Public beehives are the new buzz in the Wakatipu. Thanks to local apiculturist Neal McAloon and various sponsors, bee colonies have popped up in the Queenstown Gardens, Arthurs Point’s School House Reserve and Arrow Junction’s Whitechapel Road.

When Bee the change presented itself to Canyon Brewing, we knew straight away that we wanted to be aligned with this awesome community project.

Bee the Change founder, Neal McAloon, has sponsors behind his bee colonies - placing them in public places across Arthur's Point in a bid to grow environmental education and pollination initiatives in local communities.

IN A CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INITIATIVE, CANYON BREWING IS SPONSORING THREE THRIVING BEEHIVES IN ARTHUR’S POINT, NEAR QUEENSTOWN.

In a corporate social responsibility initiative, Canyon Brewing is sponsoring three thriving beehives in Arthur’s Point, near Queenstown.