Not enough hours in the day at the moment, trying to get as much of the honey stuff done before heading back into the mountains but will have wifi in many places there so emails to a project partner in Australia and many other comms are constant.
Tiger Honey from the Terai, Leopard Honey from the mid hills (hills here are mountains elsewhere), I thank those who are showing interest and support, it's really starting to groundswell. There'll be more details soon but here are some of the benefits of the concept:
1) On the Terai the hives act as a biological fence to reduce human-elephant conflict.
2) More bees equal increased crop pollination meaning more income on cash crops plus more food from subsistence crops.
3) The production of a great health product - more honey on the planet is a good, good thing.
4) Income generation in economically struggling areas which has multiple effects especially in highly affected areas regarding human-wildlife conflict i.e. people can afford to improve their safety (especially re leopard and elephant) plus be less reliant on traditional grazing which means less competition between domestic grazers (goats etc) and wild grazers (deer etc) - win win situation for people and predators.
There's a lot more to it, watch this space...
