 |
LifeworldsAuthor: Alexa Firmenich
A podcast series that explores how to orient your life around nature. We discover the mindsets, skills and actions that are required to partner wisely with other forms of life and engage in acts of brilliant restoration. Join me on this intimate journey into the eyes and minds of other species; learn how our guests are living in deep relationship with ecologies; be electrified by expanding your field of reality, and let these stories spark your reconnection to natures multiverse.By restoring our relationship with nature, and learning what it is to be nature, we begin to restore ourselves.www.lifeworld.earth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Language: en Genres: Life Sciences, Nature, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
Listen Now...
36. Stingless Bees, Ancient Honey & the Amazon's Future – with Dr. Rosa Vasquez Espinosa
Episode 36
Thursday, 2 April, 2026
What if one of the most powerful tools for saving the Amazon rain-forest was a bee most people have never heard of?Enter the stingless bee – a 65 million year old resident of Earth that produces honeys teeming with medicinal molecules and has co-evolved with indigenous Amazonian communities across millennia. Today, these bees are at the keystone species at the heart of a pioneering conservation movement spanning science, law, economics and Indigenous rights: one that recently secured the world's first legal recognition of the rights of an insect.Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza is the National Geographic Explorer and conservation scientist whose NGO Amazon Research Internacional is spearheading these initiatives. In this episode we explore the life world of the bees themselves, the pioneering science and bio-economies emerging around their extraordinary honey, the deep co-evolutionary bond between stingless bees and Amazonian communities, and how bridging indigenous and Western knowledge is proving essential for the forest, for the communities who steward the bees and the legal frameworks being built to protect them.Episode Website Link: https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/stinglessbeesamazonfutureLinks:Amazon Research International: Main SiteDr Rosa Vasquez EspinosaBook: The Spirit of the RainforestYoutube: STINGLESS BEES AND THE BIODIVERSITY OF OUR AMAZONIn Peru, a Mission to Save the Stingless BeeNat Geo: Stingless bees make ‘miracle liquid.’Guardian: Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world firstLook out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd & The Rising by Tryad CCPL. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
