Human connection inspired by the bees

I didn't know what to do to support the bees well-being better. At first I wondered if the wild honeybees should be captured and put in managed hives so they could be moved. I shared my feelings with Cathy and the Wonderment team and they connected me with another small scale visionary, Jenny Cullinan in South Africa. She is a wild bee researcher and was disturbed by the current solution too but explained why capturing the bees was ecologically disruptive and unnecessary. She gave me suggestions for rerouting human traffic patterns and ways to encourage altered flight patterns of the bees to avoid human-bee interaction. While South African National Parks has adopted Jenny's recommendations as policy in that country, these are not current known methods or practice in the country of Botswana. I then spoke to the beekeeper and shared my concerns for the ecology and the alternatives Jenny had suggested. He didn't change anything that day but seemed to listen. I actually ran into the beekeeper a year later in Maun. He said he had been looking for me because he wanted to share that he no longer cuts trees with chainsaws to remove nesting wild bees. Instead he said he now uses the approaches I shared from Jenny with much more favorable results! This is the power of caring humans sharing knowledge and considering the welfare of all beings in the local ecology to find ways to live together in mutual support.