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Muo (Nairobi-Kenya)19.03.2009
The site has wonderful information and will definately contribute to bee conservation worldwide!
This person is from your country, isn't he? :-D
By the way it was founded in a russian city called Perm almost 20 years ago. It produces an extensive range of honeyproducts that are extremely necessary for human health and are able to cure many deseases, although they are just considered to be health food. The company has been participating in international conferences, competitions and simposiums for around 10 years and has won a lot of high rewards. The compony has got international certificates that prove quality of its products and due to this can (so to say) open markets in foreign countries.
It also arranges expeditions to many countries throughout the world, studies honey production, traditions, culture of the peoples of those cuntries.Some information about this I give below. Hope you find in interesting :-)
Ethiopia 2007.
The Tentorium research expedition to Africa took place in February 2006. It became the second serious international project undertaken as part of the company’s expedition program. The African expedition pursued an objective to discover and look into traditional African honey hunting and beekeeping.
Ethiopia is a meeting point of two great cultural traditions, ancient Christian culture of Abyssinia and primitive pagan culture of the south. Therefore, Ethiopia is a unique place to see early beekeeping techniques used by our ancestors and to witness the evolution of a primitive honey hunter to a log beekeeper and eventual modern, refined beekeeper.
The Abyssinian highlands are a vantage point over a far-reaching savannah. Its landscape is enlivened by a few flat-topped acacia trees. Some trees are equipped with long cylinders that are unconventional beehives and bee traps. The Africans use twigs and cane daubed with clay to make bee traps. They put some honey inside the trap and hang up on a tree., Wild swarms, attracted by honey, move into the trap and start building their combs. Thus, some acacia trees become big apiaries, with dozens of hives hanging down from the branches. Tree trunks are wrapped in an iron coating to protect them from wild animals.
The Konso people earn their living by cultivating this highland area. The mountains of the Konso territory are covered by skillfully kept gardens.
In a Konso town we came across a local beekeeper who kept beehives behind his house. He proudly demonstrated his skills to us. With the help of a straw smoker, he lifted a round lid of a hive and produced round combs filled with honey.
Further to the south, the tribes of Tsamai, Arbore and Hamer inhabit a wide valley gap between two mountain ridges. They are also skilled beekeepers, and honey is their staple food.
We witnessed that in a Hamer village of Turmi when a local beekeeper showed us around his apiaries. The apiaries turned out to be hard to reach, with the route lying through the savannah through a few kilometers of high bushes. At last we reached a dried river bed. A deep river in summer, it dries out till the last drop in the dry season. The hot African dusk was falling fast. With the darkening sky in the background, we were able to recognize a few beehives in branches of a large tree. The log beekeeper got to work at a slow pace. He prepared a utensil made of a dried pumpkin, checked the sharpness of his knife and started fuming a straw smoker. He had no other protection equipment on him. When the smoke thickened, the beekeeper started up the tree. His silhouette was hard to distinguish from the surrounding darkness. Rare flames from the straw smoker were the only source that provided humble beams to illuminate the mystic setting. The beekeeper smoked the hanging beehive and proceeded to carve off the lid with a knife. We were able to witness with great excitement the entire process from beneath the tree. Sparks were falling, with fire lighting up the tree top occasionally. The extracted honeycombs were placed in a calabash with the lid affixed. The skillful honey hunter descended where the Tentorium explorers eagerly awaited. We could not resist the temptation and tasted the fresh African savannah honey right away. With dark skies above us, sand under our shoes and the bitter sweet taste of honey, we knew we would remember this moment for the rest of our lives.
On the way back, we saw a lot of conventional apiaries in the suburbs of the Ethiopian capital. They are a part of beekeeping development programs and famine prevention campaigns. Beehives and bee colonies can be purchased on a loan. The loans are then settled in installments from profits. The cost involved is not high as hives are made of plywood at a small enterprise near Addis Ababa.
Programs for development of developing countries through beekeeping are initiated and implemented by Apimondia, the International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations.
That's all for this article. I guess you know about tribes and nature in Ethiopia much more than me :-) Nevertheless I find such an expedition rather exciting!
There is also information about expeditions of Tentorium apicompany to:
Peru (2008)
Mexico (2007)
Mongolia (2007)
Ethiopia (2007)
Nepal (2006-2008)
on www.save-bee.com
If you've got any questions feel free to ask me. I'll be glad to tell you more!!! See you later!