(14 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mombasa, Kenya – 5 June 2024
1. Various of Peter Nyongesa, 69-year-old beekeeper and chairman of Tulinde Mikoko conservation group walking into a mangrove thicket clad bee protective gear
2. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Peter Nyongesa, 69-year-old beekeeper and member of Tulinde Mikoko conservation group: ++PARTLY COVERED BY SHOT 3++
"When mangroves were being cut down, I was not at peace because it evidently caused a lot of destruction. Though humans when they realize that something’s beneficial to them, because it evidently caused a lot of destruction. Though humans when they realize that something’s beneficial to them, they do not consider the harm that comes with it. It got to a point that we would even plead with them to cut the mature trees and spare the younger ones because they were cutting down every tree in sight without replanting."
3. Various of mangrove stumps
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya – 5 June 2024
4. Jared Bosire, project manager, UNEP Nairobi Convention standing outside his office
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jared Bosire, Project Manager, UNEP Nairobi Convention: ++PARTLY COVERED BY SHOT 6 AND 7++
"We actually encourage integration of livelihoods with mangrove conservation because you get other ecosystem benefits, you know, enhancing pollination, which is very important for mangrove productivity and mangrove growth. They are talking about even enhancing the incomes of local communities. The more healthy the mangroves are, probably the more productive the honey production will be."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mombasa, Kenya – 30 May 2024
6. Various of Tulinde Mikoko conservation group members planting mangroves
7. Various of mangrove trees planted in degraded area
8. Nyongesa monitoring traditional beehive
9. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Peter Nyongesa, 69-year-old beekeeper and member of Tulinde Mikoko conservation group: ++PARTLY COVERED BY SHOT 10 AND 11++
"We do not go there to cut the mangroves, we go there to conserve. Hence, we introduced bees to nurture them which has been beneficial to me. For instance, when there is ample rain and flowers blossom, the bees produce quality honey in high quantities which I sell and earn a living."
10. Various of Nyongesa squeezing bee smoker to calm bees while monitoring traditional beehive
11. Traditional beehive
STORYLINE:
Dressed in protective clothing and armed with a smoker, Peter Nyongesa walks through mangroves to monitor his beehives along the Indian Ocean coastline.
The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalls how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact.
“But they would retort that the trees do not belong to anyone but God,” he says.
So, he’s turned to deterring the loggers with bees, hidden in the mangroves and ready to sting.
Their hives now dot a section of coastline in Kenya’s main port city of Mombasa in an effort to deter people who chop mangroves for firewood or home construction.
It’s part of a local conservation initiative.
“When people realize that something is beneficial to them, they do not consider the harm that comes with it,” says Nyongesa of the loggers.
Mangroves, which thrive in salty water, help prevent erosion and help absorb the impact of severe weather events such as cyclones.
But more than half of the world’s mangrove ecosystems are at risk of collapse, according to the first global mangrove assessment for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Ecosystems released in May.
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