Kurt Jackson's artworks of reflected, captured light show his obvious love for the wild ecology of the UK's favourite coastline and have made him one of the country's most respected art activists. Arts Editor GARY COOK learns more.
… The Arts Interview: Give bees a chance says environmental artist and … Environment Environmental Artist Kurt Jackson Bees give bees a chance.2013.jpg Kurt Jackson's artworks …
Ecologist Arts Editor, GARY COOK, visits a new exhibition showcasing the plight of the British bee - those species already sadly lost and those on the verge of extinction
… Gary Cook Arts Editor | 7th July 2017 Comment Bees Conservation Endangered Extinct The Arts … mournful Somerset levels, has been swarmed by bees - fifty of them to be precise. Like … behind an exhibition of work called Fifty bees: the interconnectedness of all things. …
The Government's 'National Pollinator Strategy' has a fatal flaw, writes Georgina Downs - it contains no meaningful measures to address farmers' spraying of highly toxic pesticides, often in mixtures that can further increase the harm they cause. And with 80% of the UK's pesticides used in agriculture, that's setting the 'strategy' up to fail.
… new 10-year strategy aimed at supporting bees and other pollinators that are vital for … Environment Secretary she acknowledged that bees and other pollinating insects such as … bring about the best possible conditions for bees and other insects to flourish." What …
After an apparent cave-in to Europe's pesticide industry, the European Food Safety Authority's latest guidance on pesticides conflicts with European law, writes Georgina Downs - by ignoring the real-life agrochemical exposure of rural residents. Commission President Juncker must step in and demand the withdrawal of this disgraceful document.
… EU legislation. EFSA was willing to protect bees but has failed to protect people It is … in the existing risk assessment for bees and subsequently advised the European … human health is even higher than that of bees: the Article 4 duty in the PPP Regulation …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… these farm chemicals to either human health, bees, or the wider environment. [3] An … on this day and age. I also see loads of dead bees!!!" Charlotte Davis: "As a teenager I …
In its purist form, drawing is marking down the junctions of observed lines. The Ecology Movement does the same thing - joining up the dots of our under-strain, but interlinked environment to create forceful arguments, writes Ecologist Arts Editor, GARY COOK
… creates delicately detailed studies of bees and plants. She is entranced by the cycle …
The risk of cancer from the world's top herbicide, glyphosate, is just the tip of the iceberg of health damage caused by exposure to pesticides and other toxic agrochemicals, writes Georgina Downs. It's time for governments to correct their scandalous failure to protect rural residents from the cocktails of poisons sprayed on crops.
… loss of beneficial organisms and impact on bees of $1.2bn, $520m and $283m respectively. … of pesticides implicated in the decline of bees, or others. This really rather misses the …
Campaigner Georgina Downs has scored a significant victory in her 12 year battle against the UK Government. But DEFRA Ministers have still failed to secure protection from pesticides for people in the countryside.
… No toxic chemicals that can harm humans, bees, and other species, should be used to …