LIMA, Peru — Alfredo Santiago has a unique job in Peru 's capital city of Lima: he's a bee rescuer. The 35-year-old began as a beekeeper but added rescuing the stinging insects to his services. He ...

For a long time, insects have barely registered in environmental law. Even as scientists warned that pollinators were disappearing and food systems were becoming more fragile, bees and other insects ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, a tiny pollinator has become the unlikely protagonist of a legal revolution. Local authorities have recognized stingless bees as holders of rights in their own ecosystems, ...

Stingless bees in the Peruvian Amazon have become the first insects anywhere in the world to receive legal rights. The unprecedented move grants the native pollinators formal protection across large ...