# Saving Syria’s war-ravaged bees

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Podcast: [Living Planet](https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-planet-429845)
Published: 2026-08-28T10:21:00+00:00
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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.

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