Nicolas Géant tending to his bees on the rooftop of the Grand Palais in Paris. As bees are becoming the latest species moving toward extinction, many beekeepers in Paris are finding urban rooftops to be a great place to harvest and house their honey. Urban beekeeping has been on the rise, doubling in numbers in New York and London between 1999 and 2012. In Paris, many famous tourist spots are only a few of the locations throughout the city with movable frame hives like the one pictured above located on its rooftops. Among the documented hives are those located at Opera Garnier, Notre Dame de Paris, Grand Palais, and the National Assembly in Paris. Certain hotels like the Mandarin-Oriental and the Eiffel Park Hotel also house bees on their roofs–and they sell their honey at a steep price too, around 15 euros for 150 grams (about 20 bucks for a third… Read More