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Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights
Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually ...
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Amazon stingless bees become the 1st insects granted legal rights
In a remote corner of Peru’s central Amazon, a small, ancient pollinator has quietly rewritten legal history. Native ...
Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties ...
They are found in tropical regions across the world, and about half of the 500 known species live in the Amazon ...
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Stingless bees become world’s first insect to be granted legal rights in Peru
In a global first, Peru recognizes stingless bees as rights-bearing species, reshaping how insects fit into environmental law ...
I n a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru ...
Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...
Of the 100 crop species that provide 90 percent of the world’s food, more than 70 percent of them are pollinated by bees. Nuts, fruits and even root vegetables; they’re all here thanks to bees. Bees ...
Brooklyn’s pedestrian plazas will be quite literally buzzing with activity this spring as the city expands The Pollinator Port Project, a program to offer refuge to local bees and other pollinators.
Honey bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate crops, but we often overlook or lump together all other, non-bee pollinators – flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, just ...
ON HOW THIS COULD IMPACT MORE THAN BEES. MIKE: IT’S NOT EVERYDAY THAT YOU HEAR ABOUT INSECTS ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, BUT THAT’S WHAT THE GAME COMMISSION IS GOING TO CONSIDER ONE WEEK FROM TODAY ...
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