Turn your vacation into a real Eco-Trip; Visit and volunteer!!

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Every 3rd Saturday in August World Honey Bee Day honors the humble bee's role in pollinating our crops and sharing honey goodness with us. It's remarkable to consider there are aprx 20,000 different species of bees in the world, but just eight are honey bees. So it's sobering to realize how fragile their existence is. Billions of honey bees have disappeared over the last 15 years in what's known as colony collapse disorder. There's no definitive explanation for the die-off, though scientists believe pesticides, loss of habitat, climate change, mite infestation, and disease are contributing factors.  Because pollination is so crucial to us, this has drawn a lot of attention to the role of bees, and therefore, has incorporated a need to reintroduce bees into our eco-balance with co-pollinators to safeguard our food system.
 

For instance, a  province of Asturias, Spain  has whipped up a sweet deal.  Their Ecotourism in the Muniellos Nature Reserve helps beekeepers and farmers sustain their businesses, with carefully organized tours allowing visitors to observe honey-eating bears from a distance while spending money on local honey.