“It’s difficult not to hear the buzz,” says a smiling Ali Alzein, founder of beekeeping refugee support organisation Bees and Refugees, standing amidst a harmonious hum in the back garden of his London flat.
Three beehives stand behind him, a busy flock of pollinators venturing between their hives and the garden’s plants. Alzein’s golden retriever and cat roam the garden, the brave tortoiseshell not shying away from the surrounding bees but the retriever aware of the potential danger, having “learned his lesson” as a puppy.
As Alzein apologises to his bees for bothering them, it is evident that all 50,000 are a central part of his life.
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