Episode

Saving Syria’s war-ravaged bees

Podcast: Living Planet
Published: Aug 28, 2026
Duration seconds: 1398
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Summary

Syria’s bee population was once considered the largest in the Middle East, but then came the civil war in 2011, plunging the country into years of violent conflict. Only a fraction of its bee colonies survived. A traveling beekeeper recounts his own personal fight to bring back the bees, and with them, the farming sector.