Mirella Gutiérrez rushes through her household chores while checking and rechecking her phone for honey orders and news of digital-marketing tutorials. For several years, she has divided her time between raising her three children and helping an innovative community project on Guatemala’s Pacific coast: selling honey made by mangrove bees. Gutiérrez is a member of the Las Mañanitas Entrepreneurs Association (AELM), named after the local village of 300 where its 15 members live. Along with fellow members Aníbal Quesada and Santiago Ávila, she has discovered that producing mangrove honey can provide an alternative livelihood to fishing and other extractive activities affected by climate change and environmental degradation. She has found beekeeping can also create an economic incentive to conserve the forest on which honey production depends. In the case of mangroves, conservation ensures shelter for marine life, a buffer against coastal storms and an extraordinarily powerful means of climate... [Log in to read more]