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⚖️ UK Bee Health Law: Notifiable Diseases, Registration and Inspection Rights

A practical guide to the legal framework UK beekeepers operate under, from notifiable disease reporting duties to BeeBase registration and bee inspector powers.

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A 3D map of an apiary landscape where you trigger a suspected notifiable disease report and watch the statutory legal process unfold: notification to the National Bee Unit, inspector dispatch, and a zone sweep that reaches registered apiaries but leaves unregistered ones unaccounted for.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each notifiable disease or pest carries a different statutory restricted and surveillance zone footprint. Reporting a suspected case fires a notification pulse to the NBU, dispatches an inspector, and sweeps every apiary inside the zone — but only BeeBase-registered apiaries can be proactively reached.

🎮 How to Use

Choose a notifiable disease to set the zone sizes, adjust BeeBase registration coverage across the map, then click "Report suspected case" to run the full legal process from notification through to inspection.

💡 Did You Know?

BeeBase registration is voluntary in England and Wales — an apiary can legally exist off the register, but it is effectively invisible to statutory disease control until an inspector or neighbour discovers it in person.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D map of an apiary landscape where triggering a suspected notifiable disease report animates the real statutory legal process — notification to the National Bee Unit, inspector dispatch, and a zone sweep that reaches BeeBase-registered apiaries but leaves unregistered ones unaccounted for.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install