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How cutting edge crime pattern analysis is being used to prevent beehive theft and crime that's related to sporting events. Dr Justin Kurland is developing the spatiotemporal analysis he used at California's Redwood National Park to prevent burl poaching, for use in New Zealand. The cost of the theft of beehives to the honey industry is thought to run into the millions.
Dr Kurland is a Senior Lecturer at Waikato University's Institute for Security and Crime Science.
Poachers have chopped the burr (burl) from the base of this redwood. Photo: Sally Schilling/KQED
