Kenyans combat the threat of logging with hidden beehives
MOMBASA, Kenya — Dressed in protective clothing and armed with a smoker, Peter Nyongesa walked through the mangroves to monitor his beehives along the Indian Ocean coastline. The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalled how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact. “But they would retort that the trees do not belong to anyone but God,” he said. So he has turned to deterring the loggers with bees, hidden in the mangroves and ready to sting. Читать дальше...