From Foraging to Keeping Bees in Northeast Brazil

27/08/2024 16 min

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cydney Seigerman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/from-foraging-to-keeping-bees-in-northeast-brazil/. About the post: For Rogério and other meleiros, greater awareness of the environmental impact of their foraging practices developed  through their transition from meleiro to apicultor (apiarist or beekeeper). Yet some former meleiros explained that they eventually began to cut out only part of the beehive to preserve the colony’s integrity, illustrating how the introduction of beekeeping was not required for all meleiros to develop greater environmental awareness. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

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