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Peru
Peru may have just given Honey Chronicles one of its biggest bee stories anywhere. A national law enacted in January 2025 protects more than 175 species of native stingless bees and promotes conservation, habitat restoration, research and meliponiculture. Then two Amazonian municipalities went much further: Satipo in October 2025 and Nauta in December 2025 formally recognized native stingless bees as legal subjects with rights. Apimondia describes the Satipo action as the world's first legal-rights recognition for insects. The biological story is just as extraordinary. In Lambayeque, Sumak Kawsay uses both stingless bees and Apis mellifera to finance dry-forest restoration. In Loreto, Kukama-Kukamiria beekeeper Heriberto Vela manages five stingless-bee species while monitoring wild nests by GPS. And in the Avireri-VRAEM Biosphere Reserve, scientists are mapping exactly which trees native bees need to nest. Peru is building not just a honey industry, but a legal, scientific and cultural map of the bee itself.
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