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Placing his bare hands into a swarm of thousands of bees, a Malaysian man named Ooi Leng Chye uses his fingers to gently guide some of them into a rattan basket.
Ooi Leng Chye is a member of a group that saves bees and their nests when they are discovered in cities, seeking to prevent the creatures from being destroyed by those who view them as pests.
Bees play a vital role in ecosystems as pollinators of major crops, but their numbers have been falling rapidly due to habitat loss, pollution and pesticides.The United Nations warns that 40 percent of invertebrate pollinators in particular bees and butterflies risk global extinction.
What a buzz: Saving Malaysia’s bees one nest at a time
AFP, KUALA LUMPUR
Placing his bare hands into a swarm of thousands of bees, a Malaysian man used his fingers to gently guide some of them into a rattan basket.
Ooi Leng Chye is a member of a group that saves bees and their nests when they are discovered in cities, seeking to prevent the creatures from being destroyed by those who view them as pests.
Bees play a vital role in ecosystems as pollinators of major crops, but their numbers have been falling rapidly due to habitat loss, pollution and pesticides.
Ooi Leng Chye from the MY Bee Savior Association transferring handfuls of rescued bees from honeycombs into a rattan basket in the parking lot of an apartment building in Kuala Lumpur. – Photos: AFP
Placing his bare hands into a swarm of thousands of bees, a Malaysian man uses his fingers to gently guide some of them into a rattan basket.
Ooi Leng Chye is a member of a group that saves bees and their nests when they are discovered in cities, seeking to prevent the creatures from being destroyed by those who view them as pests.
Bees play a vital role in ecosystems as pollinators of major crops, but their numbers have been falling rapidly due to habitat loss, pollution and pesticides.
What a buzz: saving Malaysia s bees, one nest at a time
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10/05/2021 - 03:23 Ooi Leng Chye is a member of a group that saves bees and their nests when they are discovered in cities, seeking to prevent the creatures from being destroyed by those who view them as pests Mohd RASFAN AFP 3 min
Kuala Lumpur (AFP)
Placing his bare hands into a swarm of thousands of bees, a Malaysian man uses his fingers to gently guide some of them into a rattan basket.
Ooi Leng Chye is a member of a group that saves bees and their nests when they are discovered in cities, seeking to prevent the creatures from being destroyed by those who view them as pests.
Monday, 10 May 2021 09:53 AM MYT
This picture taken on April 23, 2021 shows Ooi Leng Chye from the MY Bee Savior Association releasing rescued bees into a Langstroth hive at a house in Kuala Lumpur. AFP pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 Placing his bare hands into a swarm of thousands of bees, a Malaysian man uses his fingers to gently guide some of them into a rattan basket.
Ooi Leng Chye is a member of a group that saves bees and their nests when they are discovered in cities, seeking to prevent the creatures from being destroyed by those who view them as pests.