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Protect bee populations in the UK by banning neonicotinoid insecticides.
- Posted to Bee The Change by Goodisplanetearth GoodIsplanetea…
To: Department for Environment - Food and Rural Affairs, Secretary of State for Scotland, and the Secretary of State for Wales
We the undersigned, Demand that neonicotinoid insecticides products be withdrawn from general sale in UK supermarkets, hardware stores, garden centres and farm supply stores according to the Bees Act 1980. Anything that contains acetamiprid, imidacloprid, thiacloprid or thiamethoxam must be banned.
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Healthy bee populations are essential to the production of food. Floral nectars and aromas attract bees and thus ensure adequate pollination and the reproductive success of the plant. The honey bee's most significant contribution to human dietary habits has been these pollination activities. Without honey bees human tables and lives would be impoverished by a general lack of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other bee-pollinated plant products.* Bees pollinate some of our favorite foods: Apples, oranges, lemons, broccoli, onions, blueberries, cherries, avocados and much more.
Products containing neonicotinoid insecticides have been linked to large-scale deaths and Colony Collapse Disorder of bees and other pollinators. Sign the petition to put pressure on UK regulatory agencies to ban the use of these insecticides and to protect our bees..
*http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/53420300/AtlasoftheHoneybee.pdf
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Update #4
Posted by Ben EJ Evans (Campaign Leader) on Mar 27Proof that signing petitions DOES make a difference!
Bees are in big trouble- and this cause is proof that signing petitions DOES make a difference!
Next week the Environmental Audit Committee will report on the evidence it has heard, including your dignature, about the effect insecticides are having upon insect decline. The main focus was on neonicotinoid pesticides.
As well as hearing evidence from prominent UK charities and scientists, the EAC received a written submission from...
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Update #3
Posted by Ben EJ Evans (Campaign Leader) on Feb 21http://greenparty.org.uk/news/2013/02/19/green-party-backs-insecticide-petition/
THE GREEN Party will be handing in YOUR petition to the government on Thursday 21st February to outlaw the use and sale of neonicotinoid pesticides in the UK, which have been increasingly implicated in the decline of honeybees and wild bees over the past decade.
* DEFRA, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR, 2pm.
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Pippa Bortolloti, leader of the Wales Green Party, will simultaneously hand in the... -
Update #2
Posted by Ben EJ Evans (Campaign Leader) on Dec 18, 2012Your signature on UK Insecticides Petition has been accepted as evidence for UK Parliament, Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry: INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES
The 5th Public Evidence Hearing; on Public Health, due on Wednesday, December 19 2012 has however been postponed as of today ; link [18.12.2012] [23:07] http://alturl.com/7uxvi
We will ask the committee for a prompt rescheduling of the session, so the inquiry can complete it's evidence taking and conclude report as soon as possible.
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Update #1
Posted by Ben EJ Evans (Campaign Leader) on Oct 22, 2012If you live in the UK, please sign and share this petition.
We will be submitting to a Government Committee at end of October.
Many Thanks. Bee The Change.
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Long over due!
Please sign and return,only 13 days left ,no bees no humans !
This is a serious problem!
with unoverviewed consequences.
Bee the change !
The bees go, we go...
please sign the petition and help save our buzzy friends
please sign this petition.
Bees are actually responsible for 64% of crop pollination across our food chain.This of course also affects animal feed crops.The Department of agriculture are an advisory service on what ?? The licencing of this insecticide is a crime against nature and must be WITHDRAWN immediately before the bees die off entirely !
Anyone support this ? We totally depend on Bees ,else apart from fish ~ we will all literally starve to death yes even in the West ! :-(
Signed!
I buy imported organic Honey from Russia all the time..My children love it in there warm milk as I do in my tea... so where do I sighn?
the problem with imported Honey is that in a lot of cases it is not tested as it is shipped into the uk and around the world and can contain American Foul-brood spoors and other things that kills Bees ,,, We Must Bee Careful
We love being at the top of the food chain - lets not snap the chain.