Help the bees
The role of the bee
-Bees and other pollinating insects play an essential role in ecosystems. A third of all our food depends on their pollination. A world without pollinators would be devastating for food production.
Bee-killing pesticides
-Bee-killing pesticides in particular pose the most direct risk to pollinators. The main reasons for global bee-decline are linked to industrial agriculture, parasites/pathogens and climate change. The loss of biodiversity due to mono-cultures and the wide-spread use of bee-killing pesticides are particular threats for honeybees and wild pollinators.
What can we do?
-Any progress in transforming the current destructive chemical-intensive agricultural system into an ecological farming system will have many associated benefits on other dimensions of the environment and on human food security.
cite:http://sos-bees.org/situation/
-Bees and other pollinating insects play an essential role in ecosystems. A third of all our food depends on their pollination. A world without pollinators would be devastating for food production.
Bee-killing pesticides
-Bee-killing pesticides in particular pose the most direct risk to pollinators. The main reasons for global bee-decline are linked to industrial agriculture, parasites/pathogens and climate change. The loss of biodiversity due to mono-cultures and the wide-spread use of bee-killing pesticides are particular threats for honeybees and wild pollinators.
What can we do?
-Any progress in transforming the current destructive chemical-intensive agricultural system into an ecological farming system will have many associated benefits on other dimensions of the environment and on human food security.
cite:http://sos-bees.org/situation/
The Bees In Decline
SituationSince the late 1990s, beekeepers around the world have observed the mysterious and sudden disappearance of bees, and report unusually high rates of decline in honeybee colonies.
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CausesBee-killing pesticides in particular pose the most direct risk to pollinators. The main reasons for global bee-decline are linked to industrial agriculture, parasites/pathogens and climate change. The loss of biodiversity due to monocultures and the wide-spread use of bee-killing pesticides are particular threats for honeybees and wild pollinators.
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SolutionsTo protect our bees and agriculture we need to shift from destructive industrial agriculture towards ecological farming. First and important steps are: 1. Ban all bee-harming pesticides 2. Adopt a bee-action plan 3. Promote ecological farming
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Cite: http://sos-bees.org/situation/