Tell Fish and Wildlife—Keep Neonicotinoids Out of Our Wildlife Refuges

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

Wildlife refuges are about to become unsafe for bees.

Two years ago, in a win for bees, an Obama-era ban restricted the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, or neonics, in wildlife refuges. But now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rolled back that blanket ban and is making its decisions on a case-by-case basis.¹

Bees are vital pollinators in our global ecosystem. Yet, a 2017 study found that all around the world, bees are exposed to high enough levels of neonics to damage their brains.²

Our national wildlife refuges are the last places bee-killing pesticides should be sprayed.

Add your name at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=28781 to tell the Fish and Wildlife Service to keep bee-killing neonics out of our wildlife refuges.

1. Tom Barnes, “Trump administration reverses ban on bee-harming pesticide in wildlife refuges,” Independent, August 4, 2018.
2. Alessandra Potenza, “Bad news for bees: three-quarters of all honey on Earth has pesticides in it,” The Verge, October 5, 2017.