When did this appear?

[Colleen253]

Was just doing my regular listing check to see if any settings had spontaneously changed etc, and noticed this has been recently added under the Health & safety banner:

I notice it doesn't appear when I'm previewing my listing on the app. It links to: https://www.airbnb.ca/help/article/2839/what-are-the-health-and-safety-guidelines-for-hosts-and-gues... which I haven't seen before. When was that put up? I hate the constant feeling of being in the dark and the lack of consistent notification to hosts about news and updates. We should automatically be alerted to these things before they are put on our listings, not find out by accident after the fact. Am I just missing some great 'opt in to ALL communications' that all of you already know about? I do get the odd email digests from Airbnb and I do read them, but I do not recall seeing anything about this.

Within that help article I notice this:

"If you're a guest, you will not be eligible for a refund if your host cancels your reservation because you did not comply with these guidelines. Similarly, if you're a host, you will not be eligible for a payout if a guest cancels their stay because you did not comply with the health and safety guidelines." 

Good to know.

[Ann72]

@Lawrene0  I decided to uncheck the wild animals thing because, reading into it some more, it refers to animals kept in the listing:  "Hosts should disclose the presence of a potentially dangerous animal in their listing."  None of the wild animals who have been seen around the property are kept by me in the listing. 

In the house manual I do have a note for pet owners about the bears, moose, coyotes, fishers, bobcats, and other local denizens in the woods so they don't let their animals run off unattended.

[Lawrene0]

That makes sense, @Ann72 . In our case we do keep the bees, we're beekeepers, so as long as I am mentioning them, I will note the coyotes and the owls. Works to scare off guests with small, shivery pets that shed on the blankets. Well, a few of them anyway. 😉

[Colleen253]

@Lawrene0 We have something in common besides hosting. I'm a beekeeper too! 🐝

[Ann72]

@Lawrene0  I figured you were beekeepers!  That's funny about coyotes and owls.  

[Michelle53]

@Lawrene0 @Colleen253  I'm a beekeeper too !!    They live on a flat part of the roof, at the back of my house, where they can't directly interact with guests. 

[Colleen253]

@Michelle53 That is so cool! Are your bees foraging in city gardens then? Urban beekeeping is growing in popularity.  Our city and area club has grown massively in recent years, and the majority of members are urban beekeepers.

[Michelle53]

@Colleen253  Yes, they are busy in gardens all around the neighborhood, also the local park, and the garden store, too.  We have a nature center not far away, and I'm sure they go there too. I used to sell honey at the local farmer's market, but with Airbnb, it got to be too much. I still have a small following, though.  

[Helen427]

@Colleen253 

Always remember that our now cities used to be nature filled until humans came along and covered the land in houses, buildings & roads & stole the land off the plants & animals.

Have you looked up what your landscape used to look like before then?

There's loads of fun facts & stories in Newspaper archives about nature, gardens, how Domains were created, people inquiring in garden/ nature columns about different species they didn't know what they were as they navigated to another land & settled.

The photographs taken over 100 years ago tell many a story we should all learn from, share & ensure future generations learn to. 

 It's all part of our heritage.

@Michelle53 

[Helen427]

@Michelle53  I bet those bees look down at your guests & you folk & have conversations about you all though.

Animals are very clever & chat amongst themselves.

Take some videos & see how they interact when you are about!

All the very best

Central To All Home & Location

Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand 

[Michelle53]

@Helen427  I bet they do 😉    I also have a hornet's nest in a secret part of the garden I'm not telling anyone about. It's a beautiful structure. They aren't threatening at all, come and go very quietly, but won't let me close enough to trim anything back.  Not surprising, really. 

[Helen427]

@Ann72 @Lawrene0 @Colleen253 

Any chance of some photos of your wildlife been shared on my Nurture with Nature topic I started with our Festival of Hospitality?

Would love to see some of those creatures we don't have in our part of the world and your bees.

I have bees in my garden to so do I count as a Bee Keeper to??

They love nesting in Pine Trees in New Zealand 

Loving our new-borns here in New Zealand.

Thanks in advance 

[Colleen253]

@Helen427  Will see what I can do. Interestingly, Canada’s honey bees are imported from New Zealand (although we didn’t get any this year due to Covid!). Now moose, they are quintessentially Canadian, but the pair of gigantic bull moose I spotted in my field the other day were too far away to get a clear photo. I wasn’t about to get close enough to get one, lol. 

[Helen427]

@Colleen253 

Aww that's so cool about having moose in your field.

Animals are usually pretty good if you approach slowly, quietly & cautiously. Just keep 15 -20 metres away if they are domesticated & have young ones.

I think our fear of animals comes from after we start school as children & been told, that flower, plant etc is poisonous, don't touch it, don't eat it and animals are dangerous bc people were attacked, hence in the late 1800's dehorning/ dishorning of cattle started.

 It's crazy really as they are naturally being territorial.

Animals used to have horns & thankfully still have hooves to naturally plough the earth & find water sources to drink as they venture across the land to eat & drink.

Sometimes Human beings are short sighted & haven't thought of ther consequences of their actions in regards to animals.

Yes Mrs Hobson, Captain William Hobson's wife & New Zealand's first Governor introduced bees to our  country.

I wonder if they navigated by sailing vessels via Canada to New Zealand with them or the other way around.

Again there's a wealth of information in Newspaper/ Journal archives like The National Library of NZ, Papers Past section & Year books they used to write.

I find it easiest to navigate such websites in 10 yr timeframes & start as far back as possible moving forwards to get an accurate account of events.

Happy reading!!

[Lawrene0]

Sorry, @Helen427 , no photos of the coyotes or owls. They won't stop to pose! 🙂

[Helen427]

@Lawrene0 

Does your phone camera have a Living Creatures type of feature?

If so, you can capture animals / & moving creatures in action & then zap through it and save a  "still photo"  like one can with videos.

That's how the picture of the honey bee in motion was captured in my Listing image in front of Auckland Harbour, Rangitoto Island with the Crimson Metrosidoris tree on Mount Hobson.

I had the most delightful time watching & capturing that photo & have a whole series of them.

There little legs & wings flying are incredibly powerful.

To think such tiny creatures fly through the skies in the way they do & navigate to various locations around the world is incredible.

If only human beings could understand what they said.

If only living creatures great & small had kept journals for us to read & learn from!!

Don't you love the mysteries of nature?