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Observer: The truffle of the apiary world – rare white honey from Ethiopia's highest peaks – is in danger of disappearing, according to beekeepers in the Tigray region. "No rain for the flowers,'' said Ashenaf Abera as he stood on his rocky, parched slope in the northern Ethiopian region whose famine inspired Bob Geldof to stage Live Aid in 1985. "The bees need high-altitude flowers for the white honey. When they cannot find them, they go to other plants and produce yellow honey.'' Abera is ......
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White honey grows scarce as bees abandon Ethiopia’s parched peaks
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 18th, 2010
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