The Stingless Bee, a native part of the Apidae / Meliponini family existing since prehistoric times, produces what is commonly considered as the best honey in the world (stemming from its reference as the “Nectar of the Gods” during Mayan times). This specific pollinator could be the simple key to unlocking the portal for new models of conservation through the sustainable use of biodiversity and alternative native pollination to ensure global food security, while introducing new models of economy and ecology, in order to facilitate climate negotiations.
The inaugural International Symposium on the Native Stingless Bee takes place in Peru between Lima and Iquitos on World Wildlife Conservation Day (December 4, 2022) in direct response to the political, environmental, and economic transition the world is experiencing through the context of emergency faced by the Amazon rainforest as a whole and the essential resources it houses.
This historic event welcomes global pillars in the field – from the Americas, Europe, Africa, India and Southeast Asia – to bring the vital derivatives of this pollinator to the global forefront, create new loops of exchanges and alternatives through native pollination, and ensure better education* via transnational, transgenerational and transcalar praxis in order to enable the memory transfer of endangered information.
*Education (from Latin: Ex ducere): “bring out, bring up, lead out, launch, extrude, raise, elevate, uplift”, take our lessons outside, learning from the environment.
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PROGRAM
SPEAKERS
David Ward Roubik, Ph.D.
Research Entomologist.
Smithsonian Institution, Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panamá
José Álvarez Alonso
Director General of Biological Diversity Ministry of Environment of Peru (MINAM)
Claus Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Department of Agroecology - Entomology and Plant Pathology, Aarhus University
VENUE
The Byzantine Pavilion (Pabellón Bizantino) in the Parque de la Exposición at the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI)
A symbolic location celebrating 150 years this year of bridging the east and the west. The pavilion sits in front of the Fuente China, also known as the Fuente de las Tres Razas, that possesses two allegories representing the Amazon River and Yellow River.
SUMMARY
Summary of the Inaugural International Symposium on the Native Stingless Bee, taking place on World Wildlife Conservation Day - December 4, 2022. More good news coming soon, Earth Day 2023.
Published on the United Nations South-South Cooperation Day 2023, the Report of the Inaugural International Symposium on the Native Stingless Bee present in these specific geographical areas offers perspectives on new models of conservations and trade through the birth of a new Southern Silk Corridor. The output of the participatory analysis of all this is synthesized in this report.
