Speak Up Now to Protect the American Bumblebee

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

The American bumblebee is teetering on the edge of collapse.

The sight of these bumblebees lazily floating over fields and meadows has all but vanished. The American bumblebee population has plummeted by 90% in the past two decades, and this species has already disappeared entirely from eight states.¹

Like all of our pollinators, American bumblebees face a multi-pronged threat from climate change, habitat loss, and the widespread use of neonic pesticides that are uniquely harmful to bees.

If we’re going to save American bumblebees, we need to urgently protect them under the Endangered Species Act.

Go to https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48001 to tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Protect the American bumblebee.

The Endangered Species Act is our best tool to prevent extinction — and we know that it’s remarkably effective, with a 90% success rate. It’s responsible for pulling species such as the bald eagle and American crocodile back from the brink of extinction.²

Listing the bumblebee as endangered would require evaluating protected habitat and creating a scientifically rigorous recovery plan that is periodically reviewed and revised. Creating safe havens for bees and intentionally monitoring the health of their population creates the circumstances in which these fuzzy fliers can thrive.

But if we don’t take action now to save the American bumblebee, we could lose them forever.

Will you stand up for the American bumblebee? Add your name today.

There’s no doubt that the American bumblebee’s decline is nothing short of catastrophic — but it’s not too late to save them.

If you add your voice today, we can show the Fish and Wildlife Service that Pennsylvanians want to protect our pollinators.

In the past several years, we’ve seen everyone from garden supply stores to state governments take steps to help all kinds of bees — and listing the American bumblebee as an endangered species is the next step we can take to keep our bees flying high.

Will you join the movement to protect the American bumblebee?

1. Elizabeth Gamillo, “The American Bumblebee Has Nearly Vanished From Eight States,” Scientific American, October 6, 2021.
2. Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss, “Is the Endangered Species Act a Success or Failure?,” Scientific American, August 9, 2012.