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The honey bargain: How bees are helping forests stay standing

From Peru’s dry montane forests to Indonesia’s peatlands and Ethiopia’s coffee country, bees are giving communities a concrete reason to keep trees alive.

The honey bargain: How bees are helping forests stay standing

There is a moment before dawn in the dry montane forests of Lambayeque, in northern Peru, when the air is still cool enough to sting and the palo santo trees stand dark against the ridgeline. Ysabel Calderón knows that hour well. The native stingless