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  LET US RE-ECHO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BEES The theme for 2024 “Bee Engaged with Youth." By Raphael Banda- Media Trainer   May 20 each year we celebrate the role that bees play in the ecosystem and this year’s theme was ‘Bee Engaged with Youth’.   The subject emphasizes the role that young people and media may play in preserving pollinators like bees.     To place emphasis on the need to protect bees and other insects as they are key to our food security, on April 9 th 2024 , I gave a brief write up on the importance of bees. Read and share your thoughts: Most of us naturally complain when we are stung by the bees and feel good when the bee is found life-less yet we all love honey produced by the same bees. But, there is need for the change of mindset and focus our energies towards protecting these insects as they contribute greatly to our livelihood. The extinction of the bees makes sad reading as they make 78% of the food that you and I eat every day

  The aim of this story is to understand and learn how climate change and environmental protection is being tackled in other countries but within Africa. Focus on environmental stories across Africa Yipala is nestled among flat grassland sparsely dotted with towering aged trees. Every few miles, mounds of shea nuts are drying in the early morning sun. And in the depths of the community, a rogue timber factory waits to resume operations.  The factory, whose activities are entirely illegal, has been shuttered at least twice. Since its last government shutdown in 2022, none of the factory’s machines have been destroyed nor its vast logs of rosewood burned as a deterrent. Giant cuts of rosewood in the hundreds are stacked high in the backyard. Heavy machinery with labels and instructions written in Mandarin lay waiting to begin slicing and dicing.  It epitomizes the battle underway to protect Ghana’s portion of the threatened Upper Guinean forests – one of the world’s most biodiverse tropi