Amazon’s Stingless Bees:
Amazonian stingless bees have become the first insects in the world to be granted legal rights after Peruvian municipalities passed a landmark ordinance recognising their right to exist and flourish.Stingless bees are a group of bees that either lack stingers or have non-functional stingers, making them harmless to humans. They are crucial pollinators in tropical ecosystems.Among the oldest bee species on Earth, existing for nearly 80 million years since the time of dinosaurs.Around 500 species globally, with nearly half found in the Amazon.The legal recognition grants stingless bees inherent rights, including the right to exist, maintain healthy populations, regenerate natural cycles, live in pollution-free habitats, and be legally represented when threatened.
