India, Dec. 31 -- Bees native to the Peruvian part of the Amazon rainforest, who have no sting unlike their European counterparts, have become the first insects in the world to be granted legal rights, The Guardian has reported.

The insects now have the right to exist and flourish, the British daily reported.

The campaign to secure the rights for the insects has been spearheaded by Rosa Vasquez Espinoza, founder of Amazon Research Internacional, who has spent the past few years travelling into the Amazon to work with Indigenous people to document the bees, according to The Guardian.

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