Pesticides linked to bee decline, say green groups

The UK Government and retailers are under pressure to impose a ban on sale of pesticides linked to bee population decline following new research which groups call a 'growing body of evidence'. Environmental groups including the Soil Association and Buglife are making a renewed call for an end to the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which are among the most commonly used pesticides worldwide, after a new study linked them to a decline in bee populations.

From the Ecologist, part of the Guardian Environment Network guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 August 2010 09.49 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/06/pesticides-bee-decline...

Further reading:
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/09/Pesticides-blamed-for-bee-dec...
http://www.greenfudge.org/2010/08/08/honeybees-%E2%80%93-we-kill-them-wi...

Presentation by Dr. Henk Tennekes on 16 September 2010 in Castel San Pietro Terme (Bologna), Italy:
http://www.informamiele.it/images/stories/interventi_abstract/TENNEKES%2...
http://www.cittadelmiele.it/documenti/Programma%20CSPT%202010.pdf

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