A new documentary, from BBC World Service, follows Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner Simon Mitambo in his efforts to revive bees to Kenya.

Simon is from Tharaka, which means ‘The Land of the Bees’, and these flighty, winged allies have been central to the cultural, religious and ecological cloth of the area for generations. Individuals would look to pollinators to inform them concerning the climate, notably when the rain was coming. Honey was used to brew beer for ceremonies at sacred websites – rituals that might join clans with one another and with place. Honey beer was even supplied as thanks, by households who wanted assist from others, human or more-than-human.

On this documentary, Simon units out to search out a solution.

His search reveals their worldwide significance, and a worldwide decline – WWF estimates that 1 in three mouthfuls of our meals depend on pollinators like bees, with the UN discovering that bee extinction is going on 1000% occasions quicker due to people. Why? A kind of insecticide created within the 1980s and presently utilized in 120 international locations, known as neonicotinoids. Low-cost and poisonous, it impairs a bee’s central nervous system to such an extent that they can not even fly house.