Sign the petition to ban neonicotinoids in the UK and help safeguard Britain's threatened bee population
… TAKE ACTION to protect Britain's bees Matilda Lee | 5th July 2011 Activism Wildlife Gardening Bees Neonicotinoids Pesticides Neal's Yard … Roddick Make A Difference Food And Farming bees.jpg Sign the petition to ban …
Bees in Britain are looking enviously at their EU neighbours. The EU is set to extend a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides - but agri-chemical lobbyists have the ear of pro-Brexit Tories, argues Molly Scott Cato MEP. The member of the European Parliament’s Agricultural Committee responds to our report in The Ecologist on Friday about new corporate funded research confirming the threat to bees. She argues it is now time to redouble our efforts to protect our vital pollinators.
… Scott Cato MEP | 3rd July 2017 News Brexit Bees Tories Greens MEPs Neonicotinoids … Pesticides 13580817565_fbf0bcafee_o.jpg Bees in Britain are looking enviously at their … funded research confirming the threat to bees. She argues it is now time to redouble …
Neonicotinoid pesticides are killing our honeybees. Sign the Soil Association petition to help get it banned. Then take part in Twitter's 'Tweehive' - starting on 14th July
… Help protect our honeybees Laura Sevier | 13th July 2009 Activism Wildlife Natural World Bees Colony Collapse Disorder CCD Pesticides Neonicotinoids ta-protect-our-bees.jpg Neonicotinoid pesticides are killing …
Previous calls to ban neonicotinoids have been turned down by the UK government because of lack of evidence
… Renewed call for pesticide ban to protect bees The Ecologist | 14th September 2009 News Bees Pesticides Neonicotinoids Food And … for neonicotinoids to be banned to protect bees Previous calls to ban neonicotinoids have …
The expected ban on neonicotinoids to protect bees has rightly created a lot of buzz. But will Michael Gove as environment secretary ignore the chemicals industry lobby and retain regulations after Brexit? MOLLY SCOTT CATO, a Green party MEP, counsels vigilance
… The expected ban on neonicotinoids to protect bees has rightly created a lot of buzz. But … CATO, a Green party MEP, counsels vigilance Bees across Europe can take a buzz of relief: … pesticides, that have been shown to decimate bees and other pollinating insects. …
What action is the sugar industry taking to find sustainable alternatives to bee-killing neonicotinoids, and why has it been so slow?
… acute and long-term risk to the survival of bees and other pollinating insects. … are absorbed into every part of a plant. When bees feed on a plant’s pollen or nectar, the … Evidence It also advised that the risk to bees from crops grown in the same field …
Wildlife Trusts lawyers contact environment secretary demanding he demonstrate decision to allow pesticide use is lawful.
… Neonicotinoids Wildlife Trusts Editor’s Picks bees.jpg Wildlife Trusts lawyers contact … are banned because of evidence they harm bees but farmers can apply for emergency use … “Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic …
The True Cost Accounting in Food and Farming conference was remarkable - star speakers ... fine food, drink and music ... even an impromptu Panto performance. In short, writes Sharon Garfinkel, it was an inspiration to all who attended.
… you know what's the value of the services the bees deliver without ever having received a …
Farmers are currently participating in what is likely to be one of the largest deployments of insecticides in United States history as the planting season for corn and soybeans draws to a close. Professor JOHN F TOOKER asks what impact this may have on the ecosystem
… on pest control, I believe the focus on bees has obscured larger concerns. In my view, …
Teaching children about nature, and about how our economies meet our needs and impact on nature, is now essential.
… They can sting without dying, sir, not like bees!” “Why would it sting me? In late summer … of wasps and most are pollinators just like bees. There are even some beautiful flowers – …
Farming today is well on the way to becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the agro-chemical-biotech industry, writes Colin Tudge. Defra and the European Commission are all too keen to make it so, reflecting the interests of an agro-oligarchy obsessed with profits and growth at all costs. But there is an alternative. Join the 'real farming' agrarian renaissance ...
… other hand, the presenter acknowledged, honey bees are having a rough time, and neonics …
Campaigners fear that the abolition of DECC, the department of energy and climate change, indicates that climate will take a low priority in Theresa May's policy agenda. Meanwhile the pro-fracking, pro-nuclear Andrea Leadsom is in charge of environment department Defra.
Dis-May-ed! DECC scrapped, Leadsom to run Environment Oliver Tickell | 14th July 2016 News Politics UK Energy Climate Change Brexit Economics leadsom-cut.jpg Campaigners fear that the abolition of …
However much you think nature is worth, it's a lot more, writes Neil Nightingale. According to the BBC's 'Earth Index', published today in the world's financial press, water alone is worth as much as the entire global economy, and a single beaver's landscape and wetland management clocks in at $120,000 a year.
… they are quite staggering. For example, bees and other pollinators provide services to …
Just as Sir Nicholas Stern’s report in October 2006 put a price on the effects of climate change, a new report by the UN has begun to cost out the threat of failing to conserve the world’s biodiversity – a cool £40 billion annually, and rising.
… that coffee farmers can value pollination by bees at $361 a hectare, and that areas of …
Two insecticide types - in addition to neonicotinoids - continue to pose a threat to aquatic life in Japan.
Broad-spectrum insecticides in Japan Phil Carter | 26th May 2020 News Japan Fipronil Neonicotinoids Pollution Pesticides Insecticides Editor’s Picks rice_terrace_in_japan.jpg Two insecticide types - …
In his search for alternatives to consumerism and industrialism, Jules Pretty travelled around the world to find surviving nature-based cultures. In this extract from his book 'The Edge of Extinction', he tells of the Tuva people of the Siberian steppe - proud of their traditions and closeness to the land, but very much part of the modern world - strictly on their own terms.
… is deafening, grasshoppers and the buzzing of bees. But when I sit down, all fall intensely …
According to classical economics Adam Smith's 'invisible' hand' of free markets produces the greatest good for us all, writes JP Sottile. But what happens when rip-roaring 'external costs' are left out of the equations? Wars, repression, pollution, resource destruction and climate change. And because that invisible hand is connected to Mother Nature, it's coming back to strike us.
… trillion compared to US Coal = $36.67 billion Bees and Pollinators = $170 billion compared …