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Ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides before they devastate bee populations in the USA
Healthy bee populations are essential to the production of our food. Bees are attracted to floral nectars and help pollinate the plant, allowing it to reproduce. Therefore, without honey bees, our lives would be impoverished by a general lack of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other bee-pollinated
Protect bee populations in the UK by banning neonicotinoid insecticides.
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
EUROPEAN NEWS
European legislators voted for a two year in Europe ( New York Times: http://alturl.com/bn9ho (http://alturl.com/bn9ho) ), hopefully beginning no later than July 2013.
Work is to remove domestic products from shelves before then, so we don't just "use up the …
A shocking number of children have never seen a bee
One in five British children under the age of 10 has never seen a bee in the wild. Nope, not ever.
The study, by Disney's The Hive and the charityAdopt-a-Hive (http://www.thehiveadopt.co.uk), hopes to raise awareness of the plight of wild bees.
'I am shocked …
Back a ban for bees’ and our benefit.The Wildlife Trusts.
A call for a ban on the use of three neonicotinoids - pesticides which can be dangerous to bees and other pollinators – is backed by The Wildlife Trusts.
The Environmental Audit Committee of the House of Commons today publishes a report calling on the …
Why is this campaign important to you?
Everything on this planet is connected and bees are a huge link in the chain!
Bees are so important and provide a basic source of ingredient for most of our drugs, intact raw and unprocessed honey (a by product of bee). is vital to our health, we most express our dissatisfaction to anything than is distroy bees. Not good for our Ecosystem
USGS has produced Pesticide Usage Maps for 459 different pesticides from 1992 -2009. There is a startling correlation between maps for neonic usage and the collapse of bee and bird populations. Very powerful resource.
http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/compound_listing.php
BEEcause I have children and Grandchildren and I want them to live in a world with clean air and water and plentiful non GMO food.
withouth the bee's no pollination// we die
An important informative article about the way neonicotioids kill entire colonies of honeybees. Do please read, save and share this one;
http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/how-do-neonicotinoids-work.html
I have two hives and really love these amazing creatures! They are key to our survival so let's get responsible and ban use of these lethal chemicals - the bees are struggling already with so much mono cropping, less and less uncultivated land and fewer hedges, trees.
Honey is a natural healing remedy.
not if it has neurotoxins in it, sadly :(
environment, Protection and Conservation, pesticides...need I say more, bee's are very important to this planet!!!!!!!!
The petetion be extended to all countries using it. Honey is a well known as food, preservative for long life of Medicines in numerous systems of health cares like Evervedic, and other.
Don't we already have enough chemicals in our food, our air, our water and on and on. It need to stop somewhere and the bee can't do it! We live here and the incredible planet, but do not respect it very well.