Stingless bees in Peru now have legal rights, recognizing their ecological importance and protecting vital rainforest ...

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 ...

For a long time, insects have barely registered in environmental law. Even as scientists warned that pollinators were disappearing and food systems were becoming more fragile, bees and other insects ...

Native to the tropics, these pollinators are taking a lead role in one of the latest efforts to conserve the Amazon rainforest. Melipona eburnea, a species of bee, is native to the Amazon. Unlike the ...

Stingless bees in the Peruvian Amazon have become the first insects anywhere in the world to receive legal rights. The unprecedented move grants the native pollinators formal protection across large ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, a tiny pollinator has become the unlikely protagonist of a legal revolution. Local authorities have recognized stingless bees as holders of rights in their own ecosystems, ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties Miryan Delgado/Amazon Research Internacional Researchers are working to save stingless ...

Many stingless bees are native to Peru, where they pollinate the Amazon's diverse plants and food crops. Luis García Wild, stingless bees have been granted legal rights in some parts of Peru, the ...