Why are bee numbers dropping in Nepal?

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In a remote village about an eight-hour drive from Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, farmers risk their lives to harvest wild honey. Himalayan giant bees, also known as Apis laboriosa, build their hives on cliffs and reaching the hives is risky business. Now, extreme weather brought on by climate change and other factors has made the farmers' work even harder.
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  • @SyndicateOperative
    @SyndicateOperative20 күн бұрын

    Pesticides, same reason as everywhere else. Goodbye.

  • @Lucky55Blue
    @Lucky55Blue20 күн бұрын

    You are the best narrator for this Channel. Very clean English and easy to understand.

  • @bobbymoss6160
    @bobbymoss616020 күн бұрын

    Holy cow, those honeycombs are absolutely massive!

  • @hippocreation
    @hippocreation20 күн бұрын

    These people do not use poverty as an excuse for looting and robbing.

  • @bobbymoss6160

    @bobbymoss6160

    20 күн бұрын

    Because they don't have lazy genes in their DNA.

  • @nueat6

    @nueat6

    18 күн бұрын

    @hippocreation 👈 captain obvious

  • @voidvector

    @voidvector

    10 күн бұрын

    They don't have access to guns cause all the bordering countries have strict gun control. See what happens with poverty in Central America and Africa.

  • @hippocreation

    @hippocreation

    10 күн бұрын

    @@voidvector that’s my whole point: people loot or rob because of lack of discipline, ethics and value. Not because of poverty. There are plenty of poor regions around the world where people are peaceful and living in harmony. Africa, Haiti, Sans Francisco, Detroit are exception. You see some pattern here?

  • @voidvector

    @voidvector

    10 күн бұрын

    @@hippocreation Your discipline, ethics, and value will all go out the window if your neighbor points a gun at your face, or your wife's face, or your parent's face. You are a product of your environment. Those people don't rob each other because they don't have access to guns and their neighbors don't have access to guns. So no one in their environment tries to use gun to "solve problems." Also San Francisco doesn't have a gun problem. It has a housing problem caused by NIMBYs.

  • @sharmahemkanta1898
    @sharmahemkanta189810 күн бұрын

    The honey bees have been disappearing from Samtse District of Bhutan on the southern foothills of the Himalayas.The main reason is the use of pesticides on the bordering Indian tea gardens of the north Bengal.The reckless use of the Thiodan before tea harvest during the month of June, July and August has been killing thousands of honey bees searching nectar in the tea flowers.

  • @ajholmes4867
    @ajholmes486720 күн бұрын

    Maybe just… leave the bees alone? 🤔 Didn’t see that one mentioned.

  • @ayoogorkhali9262

    @ayoogorkhali9262

    20 күн бұрын

    May be west should stop destroying earth and then blame the other poor small nations for it

  • @samikshagoyal7707

    @samikshagoyal7707

    19 күн бұрын

    Meat industry causes 15% of global greenhouse emissions. Indian and Nepali people are predominantly vegetarians and vegans. Why don’t the western people think of leaving meat? Why all the time lecture other nations on every topic?

  • @ArariaKAgelessTraveller

    @ArariaKAgelessTraveller

    19 күн бұрын

    The use of pesticide prevents the bees from ever Polinating the plants covered in chemicals

  • @HowToChangeName

    @HowToChangeName

    15 күн бұрын

    Maybe just stop ruining poorer nation with your emission

  • @PeeDeeWho

    @PeeDeeWho

    11 күн бұрын

    It's supply and demand. More and more people want mad honey which is produce in that region. Those villagers are over harvesting to make a money and not sustain.

  • @elainelindsey1306
    @elainelindsey130619 күн бұрын

    When i saw the honey combs with reminded me of the scene in the jungle book when they steal the honey

  • @atinyshineforever9252
    @atinyshineforever925218 күн бұрын

    Cause we're trapped between hills with dirt n dust

  • @lawrencemosely3306
    @lawrencemosely330618 күн бұрын

    They don’t need to do this - we need bees for survival, they could let villagers have a happy life ♥️

  • @user-gw6fd6cq7p
    @user-gw6fd6cq7p18 күн бұрын

    The air is toxic and I know I have been there.

  • @SilverStrumer
    @SilverStrumer20 күн бұрын

    That’s sad

  • @lahamrayearth5173
    @lahamrayearth517319 күн бұрын

    why dont they raise their own bee all they do is harvest with zero effort

  • @gorkhey1234

    @gorkhey1234

    15 күн бұрын

    These are not the normal farm bees these are mountain bees bigger than normal bee and they live on cliff of mountain where people cannot come it's impossible to farm them

  • @nidhinkn5980
    @nidhinkn598018 күн бұрын

    Honey 😭

  • @nallaguntlavamshi7098
    @nallaguntlavamshi709819 күн бұрын

    Maybe their neighbors eating them when they fly over

  • @makuohua3071
    @makuohua307120 күн бұрын

    They have never learn anything throughout their lives since generation . How to survived by farming And bee hive And honey production as sources of income very Sad in 21st Century .

  • @RazingSunGTX

    @RazingSunGTX

    19 күн бұрын

    You can look for Mad honey. I'm guessing they really love their job and complain about poverty 😂

  • @makuohua3071

    @makuohua3071

    19 күн бұрын

    @@RazingSunGTX * : Nature and Nurture is best teacher for getting insights in professionalism learning courseware phenomenon. As per today needs mean Nepal should learn modern techniques and technology of Agriculture and techniques for combined farming of agricultural along bee hives farming .

  • @IceTea_Official
    @IceTea_Official20 күн бұрын

    Hi❤

  • @MeghaGurung-ie1ix
    @MeghaGurung-ie1ix14 күн бұрын

  • @bradentour3993
    @bradentour399319 күн бұрын

    It probably because of the smell next door from India 😂😂

  • @Professor91811

    @Professor91811

    19 күн бұрын

    Tbh as someone who has visited both Beijing and New Delhi, both Chinese and Indians smell bad😂

  • @samikshagoyal7707

    @samikshagoyal7707

    19 күн бұрын

    Racist! Chinese bot. 🙄

  • @nallaguntlavamshi7098

    @nallaguntlavamshi7098

    19 күн бұрын

    No since the other neighbors eating them when they fly over

  • @NicholasFoong69
    @NicholasFoong6920 күн бұрын

    Chinese mouse wine is considered as a national delicacy here in china 🇨🇳😷👍

  • @isleephungry

    @isleephungry

    20 күн бұрын

    Divya Godhan Ark😂🤤😍

  • @misterbig9025.

    @misterbig9025.

    20 күн бұрын

    ​@@isleephungrygo eat your bat soup, cheenk

  • @Hkchinese888

    @Hkchinese888

    20 күн бұрын

    Chyna incense ash tea can curse ED

  • @misterbig9025.

    @misterbig9025.

    20 күн бұрын

    @@Hkchinese888 even then, the sticks are small

  • @isleephungry

    @isleephungry

    20 күн бұрын

    @@Hkchinese888 patanjali is my idol😍

  • @arjunagasari8041
    @arjunagasari804115 күн бұрын

    climate change effect

  • @dewert2
    @dewert215 күн бұрын

    no one mentions the unsustainable overharvesting practices? that is probably the biggest cause of decline

  • @Hkchinese888
    @Hkchinese88820 күн бұрын

    A fail state

  • @Kiyoone
    @Kiyoone20 күн бұрын

    Here we go with the "cLiMaTe ChAnGe" again...

  • @SyndicateOperative

    @SyndicateOperative

    20 күн бұрын

    LOL. Yes.

  • @zzz-zt6fs

    @zzz-zt6fs

    20 күн бұрын

    U fail to understand Nepal is one of the few countries in this world that are extremely prone to natural disasters caused by climate change. Due to rising temperatures, there are hundreds of glacial lakes in our mountainous regions that are on the verge of breaking and causing entire valleys to be submerged underwater. When there are people dying everyday due to climate change induced disasters , who are YOU to try and disregard the fact that climate change is real?

  • @MetaView7

    @MetaView7

    20 күн бұрын

    @@zzz-zt6fs

  • @RazingSunGTX

    @RazingSunGTX

    19 күн бұрын

    It was because Mad Honey. Look for info🎉

  • @cosmicerror2682
    @cosmicerror268220 күн бұрын

    Climate change. What a joke 😂

  • @aarcoh
    @aarcoh20 күн бұрын

    XI JINPING CAN SOLVE THIS. XI JINPING IS A BOLD AND VISIONARY LEADER WHO CAN SOLVE ANY PROBLEM

  • @MetaView7

    @MetaView7

    20 күн бұрын

    is that you the LastChangKaiShek?

  • @azisbro

    @azisbro

    19 күн бұрын

    LastChangKaiShek is at it again sigh….

  • @Nobodiez01
    @Nobodiez0118 күн бұрын

    Blame the China…