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Breeding Stingless Bees to Halt Deforestation in Caquetá

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🇨🇴 Colombia

Sixty families in Colombia's most deforested department are raising native stingless bees as a sweeter, forest-friendly alternative to cattle ranching and coca.

60familiesFamilies keeping stingless bees in Caquetá agroforestry plots
80beekeepersBeekeepers in Suriname's meliponiculture villages
480hivesStingless bee hives across ACT's Suriname program
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