https://www.biographic.com/the-bee-whisperers/
"Marcio Verá Mirim grew up listening to a family story. His grandfather, a
leader of the semi-nomadic Guarani Mbyá Indigenous people, had dreamed that one
day the sun would cease to rise and the sky would go black. The only light
shining would be from a candle made of the wax of the jataí (
Tetragonisca
angustula), a tiny golden bee. Jataí are native to eastern South America’s
Atlantic Forest—one of the most diverse biomes in the world—where Verá Mirim’s
people have lived for centuries.
After this revelation his family started collecting the bees, which have bright
green eyes and elongated abdomens, from hives within tree trunks. They raised
the insects inside dry calabashes near their houses, ensuring easy access to
honey for food and medicine, and access to wax for making ceremonial candles.
When they traveled they carried the bees along to guarantee protection from the
great darkness.
Verá Mirim is now chief of a tiny Guarani community called Yvy Porã on the
outskirts of São Paulo, in southern Brazil. Over the past 10 years he has
followed in his ancestors’ footsteps—but with a modern twist. Combining his
family’s knowledge of bees with Western beekeeping techniques, he is raising
jataí and nine other species of native bees in Yvy Porã. The village is one of
six within the Jaraguá Indigenous Land, the smallest piece of
federally-recognized Indigenous land in the country. It encompasses an area
about the size of two soccer fields, flanked by the still-forested Jaraguá
Mountain on one side and a busy highway on the other—an island of preservation
squeezed by the growing metropolis."
Via
Fix the News:
https://fixthenews.com/dawn-solar-age-same-sex-thailand-nature-europe/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
