Beekeeping in Guatemala exists despite climate crisis and threats

Published 2021년 7월 23일

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Beekeepers in Guatemala are facing challenges such as the climate crisis, COVID-19 pandemic, and threats to their business, including the recent poisoning of a million bees. The pandemic has resulted in a 27% decrease in beekeeping production. Despite these challenges, Guatemala, with 5,012 apiaries and 3,335 beekeepers, continues to produce honey, primarily for export to the European Union. The country relies on bees for pollination and has a diverse bee population, including the endemic "melipona beecheii", whose honeycombs have a unique conical shape. The survival of these bees depends on human consciousness and efforts to protect forests and honeycombs.

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EFE– Beekeepers in Guatemala seek to maintain an environmentally friendly business in the Central American nation despite existing threats, such as the climate crisis or the recent poisoning of a million bees on a farm in the central region of the country. To these factors is also added the COVID-19 pandemic which, in addition to the more than 10,000 deaths in Guatemala and 340,857 positive cases accumulated in 16 months, has caused a reduction in beekeeping production of about 27% in the last anus. Edwin Muñoz is one of the 3,335 beekeepers legally registered with the authorities in Guatemala, owner of the La Joya apiary, located about 50 kilometers southeast of the capital, where he shelters 150,000 bees, specifically the “honey bee” species, the most prevalent. in the region. A member of the Association of Integration and Sustainability Beekeepers (Apis), Muñoz assures Efe that the bee is considered "a sensor of the degree of pollution we have on the planet" and, as is known, ...

Source: Forbescentroamerica