So what's Plan Bee?

In The Observer, on Sunday May 25th 2008, there was an article about the continuing decline of the British bee population. It says,

They are nature's most productive workers, the farmer's friend and the essence of wholesome country life. But within a decade Britain's honeybee could be extinct. Simon Garfield meets the keepers battling a killer disease that's already wiped out a third of America's colonies – and now threatens our own.

Then talking about the different diseases bees can get it continues,

Then there was the potential catastrophe of the acronym CCD, the cause or symptoms of which no one claimed to fully understand, but whose name suggested a sort of bee Armageddon: Colony Collapse Disorder. But the problem with bees should not just be of concern to those gathered in a small English lecture hall, but a matter for us all. The question of dwindling honey supplies is one thing, but the greater threat is to apples, pears, raspberries, cherries, strawberries, blackcurrants, broad and runner beans and oilseed rape, and about 20 other crops dependent on insects for pollination. For bees are not just part of the foodchain; they are its clasp.

The article also when on to say that the government are doing very little about it.