A Peruvian scientist and her team are working together to make sure stingless bees are around for generations to come. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, founder of Amazon Research Internacional, and Constanza ...

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As a child, Heriberto Vela, an Indigenous resident of Loreto, Peru, watched his father pull nests of wild stingless bees from trees in the Amazon forest. Together, the two then extracted honey from ...

Stingless bees have pollinated much of the Amazon for 80 million years and support key crops like cacao, coffee, and bananas. In 2025, municipalities in Peru became the first in the world to grant an ...

Wild, stingless bees have been granted legal rights in some parts of Peru, the latest effort in the growing global movement to protect animals by giving them similar status as people and companies.

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In a groundbreaking move, stingless bees in Peru's Amazon rainforest have been granted legal rights, becoming the world's first insects with such protections. This initiative, driven by local ...