For millennia, Amazonian stingless bees have buzzed through the trees, pollinating 80% of the rainforest. They make the miracle of the Amazon possible, but their hum is falling silent, their habitats lost and poisoned by pesticides.
Now Peru could make history by granting these amazing bees — and nature itself — fundamental legal rights to exist and flourish. It would protect both the bees and their habitats!
One province has just passed this ground-breaking law, more could follow, and now, from deep in the forest, Indigenous leaders are rising to take it to Peru’s Congress.
All over the world, a legal revolution is taking place. Ecuador enshrined rights for nature in its constitution. New Zealand granted legal personhood to the Whanganui River. And Peru has already recognised the rights of Lake Titicaca and the Marañón River.
Now these astonishing Amazonian bees, ancient allies in the great dance of life, could be the first insect to be granted fundamental rights.
This is about much more than bees. It’s about forests, climate, food, and the sacred interconnection of all life.
When enough of us sign, Indigenous allies will deliver our voices direct to Peru’s lawmakers — add your name to demand rights for the Amazon’s bees!
Over 379,000 have signed the petition so far.
John Martyn thinks is an interesting idea. It has come from Avaaz, a US-based online campaigning organisation.