This study was conducted in Tiebila and Nafoun, two villages bordering the Badenou classified forest. It aims to highlight the uses of honey by the populations of this area and their apicultural practices that can be encouraged or improved in order to exploit optimally the potential for honey production of this forest. The data were collected using documentation, direct observation in the field, 22 interviews including 14 individuals and eight focus groups. The beekeeping activity is ancestral and essentially based on the «hunt for honey» which uses fire during the harvest of honey. People use honey to meet their nutritional, therapeutic, economic and cultural needs. Several «honey hunters» and former beekeepers have shown interest in modern beekeeping as an economic opportunity. The former traditional and modern beekeepers hold some apicultural knowledge such as the selection of plant species by bees for food, the use of certain plants as attracting swarms to prepare hives to facilitate their colonization by bees. Honey is a multi-purpose product of great importance to the populations of Tiebila and Nafoun. The use of fire during harvesting honey must be avoided. The use of certain plants as attracting swarms is a traditional knowledge and beekeeping know-how whose capitalization in a project of modernization of the beekeeping should allow a reduction of the cost.