Experts say the management model can be adopted by communities across Senegal and elsewhere in the world. “Bees and honey protect the mangrove,” says Sonko, president of the cooperative Mboga Yaye, which means “a good Serrer” in the local language of the Serrers, the main ethnicity in the mangrove-rich delta of Sine Saloum. “A degrading mangrove means you degrade the …