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Bees at risk due to use of banned pesticide

The Government, for the second year running, has allowed for a banned bee-harming pesticide to be used by sugar beet farmers in England, threatening our precious pollinators In making the decision ministers went against the explicit advice of their own scientific advisors not to allow the pesticide to be used. Environmental organisations the RSPB, Friends of the Earth, Buglife & The Wildlife Trusts say the decision goes against the government’s green promises, and will ultimately lead to the harm of...

Wildflowers to be contaminated with banned insecticide!

We are very upset, this is an environmentally regressive decision by Defra, destroying wildflowers in the countryside…how will increased use of herbicides on field margins and hedgerows add to the onslaught being experienced by insect populations.” Said Matt Shardlow, Buglife CEO. Despite having been proven to be massively harmful to wildlife, Defra has capitulated to an NFU request to use neonicotinoid insecticides on Sugar beet seeds in 2021. Neonicotinoids are known to wash off seeds and are taken up by...