Drogheda Port Company is the latest winner of the Oxigen Environmental/Drogheda and District Chamber ‘Best of the Boyne Green Awards’ for its beehive conservation project at the firm’s Harbourville headquarters on the Marsh Road. The hives, which are registered with the Native Irish Honey-Bee Society (NIHBS), are managed by local beekeeper Gerry Clinton of Sunhill Honey, who has been beekeeping on the site for several years. While Gerrys’s bees have long thrived in Harbourville, the dedicated Drogheda Port hives represent a recent initiative focused on supporting Ireland’s only native honeybee (Apis mellifera mellifera).
The project has already produced ample supplies of honey and it has proved very popular.
The initiative forms part of Drogheda Port Company’s wider corporate social responsibility strategy, which places a strong focus on environmental projects that support the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan and demonstrate how ports can grow sustainably while enhancing their natural surroundings.
“Once again, it’s great to be backing a local project that is doing so much for the environment. Oxigen Environmental have been great supporters of this series since we launched it last year and we can’t wait to honour more people, firms and groups in the coming months,” chamber CEO, Hubert Murphy, stated.