Project Report
| Aug 5, 2026
Progress in protecting the Rainforest
By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director, Yachana Foundation
Conservation is a major focus of the foundation. An important way to protect the forest is to work with the bee pollinators. Our interesting community based project of working with Melipona stingless bees is helping the people in the region and the forest. Melipona bees are a major pollinator for the rainforest. We have around 15 hives that we have passed on to woman in the region plus the management of our own hives. No bees, no forest. So, it is vitally important that people continue to help support this project where woman can get a hive and help them be more self-sufficient and help the rainforest at the same time. Thanks, and remember I love you Douglas
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Apr 7, 2026
Helping the pollinators
By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director, Yachana Foundation
The year is moving forward with a lot of positive projects in the works. Our work with native Amazon Melipona stingless bees is also growing. The population of insect pollinators within the Amazon is dropping rapidly due to deforestation. Our program where people can adopt a beehive is expanding and will help to offset the destruction to the environment. This is a project that is primarily aimed to help women by improving their income by their having more beehives where they can sell the byproducts. The project is also vitally important in helping to protect the rainforest. Farmers are putting the beehives in plantations of their coffee to help pollinate the trees and increase coffee production and income for the family but those same bees are also pollinating the surrounding rainforest. This is a wonderful and simple project helping the people and the environment. Thank you for your support to make this project possible.
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Dec 15, 2025
Progress in protecting the Rainforest
By Douglas McMeekin | Executive Director
Environmental education is a key component of what we as an institution are working on. Joining with other organizations we are putting together a program for specialists to visit schools and talk about the importance of protecting the forest and wildlife that lives in it. One of the organizations we are working with is liberating wild animals that have gone through their facility to make sure they are in good health and ready to go back to the wild. They are turning these animals loose in our 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of rainforest. It is vitally important that we promote a program of conservation in the region to provide some protection to these animals being liberated. Also the promotion of the management of Melipona bees. These native bees to the Amazon are stingless and vitally important for the pollination of many species of plants in the region. We are promoting where someone can adopt a beehive and we will send videos of the hive and how this project is helping women in the region. These programs and much more are where your support is going. Thanks, have a happy holiday season, and remember, I love you Douglas
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