Honey is highly sought after all over Nigeria. Distressingly, around Gashaka Gumti National Park, it is common for people to cut down entire trees to harvest the honey within tree trunks! Over the last 2 months, ANI Foundation and the National Park Service have engaged the services of the Bee Keeping Extension Society to train 50 farmers in communities living in and around the National Park who have erected 350 bee hives across the landscape. One key aim of the program is to improve household incomes through the production of honey. But another key aim is to stop the needless felling of trees in the landscape. The bee hives are kept in forested areas incentivising people to keep the trees so their bees have plenty of pollen. We are improving livelihoods AND giving people a stake in saving the forests of Gashaka Gumti at the same time! @FMEnvng @NigeriaParks @EUinNigeria @GERinNigeria @UKinNigeria @tusk_org @nacgeof @Nature_Africa @IAmNuru @EarthToLola @WildAfricaOrg @PangolinCrisis @GovernorAUF @GovAgbuKefas @ACReSALNigeria @PantheraCats @TomJRichardsUK @nyuprimatology @WestAfricanCon1 @martine_sobey @Park_Protection @CWatsonICRAF @AusHCAbuja @SalakoIziaq @BalarabeAbbas_ @Bees @Shike_ade @USAIDNigeria @TarabaFacts @WCS_Nigeria @ncfnigeria @NCCCNigeria