Welcome to the Amazomel community
The sweetest way to save the Amazon
Amazomel honey is produced by the stingless Melipona bee deep in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil by local and indigenous families. Their efforts to raise and protect this native bee prevents destruction of trees that are vital to reducing greenhouse gases and fighting climate change.
These rare bees (who are actually really cute!) produce an equally rare organic honey that is praised for its citrusy-sweet taste and revered for its healthy medicinal properties. In the process, these beekeeping families promote the pollination that is essential for biodiversity and generate a sustainable, eco-friendly income.
Amazomel aims to save the Amazon Rainforest by preserving native stingless bees and empower local marginalized communities by providing them with alternative income opportunities thanks to high-quality Melipona culture and organic honey production.
Amazomel is the signature project of the Non-Timber Forest Products Foundation, a Swiss non-profit organization that is committed to saving the world’s precious Rainforest by providing alternative income opportunities to local communities.
With one simple, sweet solution, NTFP Foundation and Amazomel are preserving precious Rainforest and empowering indigenous communities to thrive economically and in accordance with their traditions and core values.
Thanks to customers like you, the Amazomel community of beekeepers can continue to serve as stewards of the forest, enabling all of us to breathe a little easier. All proceeds from your purchase of Amazomel honey are used to provide starter hives, training, and technical assistance to more families, growing our network and amplifying our impact.
Let’s Bee Helpful!
Products overview
Composed of honey and propolis extract
Honey from Amazonian Stingless Bees
Propolis Extract from Amazonian Stingless Bees
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Sambura
(Stingless Bee Pollen)
The Sweet Gold of the Amazon
Why is Amazomel so important for sustainability ?
Global food systems rely on bees
• 1/3 of world food production depends on bees
• 100 crops species provide 90% of world’s food, 71 of these are pollinated by bees
Indigenous & rural communities are the traditional guardians of the forest
• Indigenous communities have long protected the Amazon Rainforest against outside interests, preserving a resource which has been exploited and destroyed.
• Rainforests are the ancestral homes of indigenous people, and a sustainable source of income for many families.
Mitigating rain forest loss yields local & global benefits
• Melipona beekeeping is a practical, scalable solution to the threats facing rain forests & their inhabitants.
• Amazomel is the leading Amazonas Melipona beekeeping supporting company!
Rainforests are vital to the sustainability of all forms of life on the planet
• they provide ≈ 20% of world’s oxygen
• they absorb ≈ 20% of main-made CO2 emissions, stabilizing Earth’s climate, weather patterns & rainfalls
• they contain 50% of existing plant & animal species in the world
Sustainability impacts
Social benefits
Women and indigenous communities’ empowerment & prosperity
Environmental benefits
Climate change mitigation & flaura and fauna biodiversity preservation
Health benefits
Anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant properties & healthy sugar profile
Economic benefits
Local communities’ financial development and access to international market
Top KPIs
Proofpoints
1, 5, 8, 10 and 15 - Amazomel's calculation based on on-field collected data.
2 - FAO.
3 - Irish et al., 2008.
10 - 2013 data on amazonas family size, adapted to 2024.
13 - Instituto Peabiru, 2015 (Peabiru believes that native honey production has the potential to prevent an equivalent of 16 kilos of carbon for each kilo of honey from native bees.