The idea may seem incredible but there it goes, the right to life and other legal guarantees have been granted to tiny insects that have long been ove.

For a long time, insects have barely registered in environmental law. Even as scientists warned that pollinators were disappearing and food systems were becoming more fragile, bees and other insects ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, a tiny pollinator has become the unlikely protagonist of a legal revolution. Local authorities have recognized stingless bees as holders of rights in their own ecosystems, ...

Peru has given legal status to stingless bees. These insects are now recognized as legal entities with rights. They can be ...