Peru
We partner with Amazon Research Internacional (ARI) in Peru, an organisation focused on supporting stingless beekeeping. With ARI, we empower indigenous people in the Amazon by promoting sustainable stingless beekeeping as a tool for biodiversity conservation, cultural preservation, and economic independence.
Through knowledge-sharing, practical training, and advocacy, the work strengthens their role as environmental stewards while fostering sustainable livelihoods rooted in traditional ecological knowledge. By expanding stingless bee conservation efforts, the project directly contributes to protecting these vital pollinators and provides a scalable model for regenerating the Amazon.
Our team in Peru
Rosa Vásquez Espinoza
Founder of Amazon Research Internacional
Las Meliponicultoras
This work empowers indigenous women in the Amazon by promoting sustainable stingless beekeeping as a tool for biodiversity conservation, cultural preservation, and economic independence. Through knowledge-sharing, practical training, and advocacy, the project strengthens their role as environmental stewards while fostering sustainable livelihoods rooted in traditional ecological knowledge. By expanding stingless bee conservation efforts, the project directly contributes to protecting these vital pollinators and provides a scalable model for regenerating the Amazon.
Our work in Peru has four aims:
- To develop stingless beekeeping training resources, giving stingless beekeepers access to resources in their local languages
- To train local stingless beekeeping experts, incorporating indigenous knowledge,
- To use stingless beekeeping as a tool for biodiversity conservation, protecting the Amazon Rainforest
- To advocate for the protection and promotion of stingless bees by showing their importance in indigenous culture, as keystone species, and for income generation.
We currently support ARI in three locations across Peru. By building local capacity, we will work to scale stingless bee training across Peru.
Case Study
Miceala Humman is an indigenous women leader and stingless beekeeper. Married, with twin boys, she keeps stingless bees for income generation and for medicine. She stated, “Stingless beekeeping has given me strength as a leader. I used to be shy but now I talk to everyone. I also have a leadership role in stingless beekeeping. I train and share information with other women in informal settings.”
Miceala envisions communities working together to gain more income through beekeeping. Her mission is to learn from other beekeepers and expand her own beekeeping. By understanding the differences between communities and how others engage in stingless beekeeping, she can learn and share new techniques.
Miceala Humman, indigenous woman leader and stingless beekeeper
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