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Honey bees in Bolivia’s mountains threatened by deforestation are moving to a sanctuary created by a couple to rescue the insects from a staggering decline in their colonies as coca farming has encroached on their habitat.
For 10 years, zootechnical engineering vet Eric Paredes and his wife Cinthya Callisaya Yujra have scoured the humid, subtropical Yungas region for beehives to take to their “Las Orquídeas” (The Orchids) sanctuary. There, the insects thrive in wooden hives safely away from farmers who find them a nuisance.
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