Dear Friend,

Bees are facing a massive global die-off, with beekeepers losing 40 percent of honeybee colonies last winter alone.(1)

And now the Trump administration has just approved a pesticide that EPA scientists have called "very highly toxic" for bees for use in 11 states, including California.(2)

As long as Trump is president, it's up to states and local governments to protect the bees, and California has led the fight to stop the use of bee-killing pesticides. Will you chip in $5 to help fight back?

Yes, I'll donate $5 to help save the bees.

Bees are pollinators that help bring us one out of every three bites of food we eat, and they are critical to the entire ecosystem.(3)

But we are rapidly losing these precious pollinators at an alarming rate. We've lost nearly two-thirds of the honeybee hives in the last 70 years, with the largest decline happening in the last decade.(4) And evidence has piled up proving that widely used pesticides such as neonicotinoids and sulfoxaflor are causing colonies to collapse and bees to stop breeding.(5)

Instead of attacking the problem, the Trump administration is working to cover it up. Trump's USDA shut down the largest study tracking colony collapse, making it the third USDA study on bees shut down by the Trump administration.(6)

We cannot allow Trump-approved toxic pesticides to kill our bee population.

We have a two-step plan to help the bees survive Trump's assault:

1. We're calling on state and local governments to provide protections by banning bee-killing pesticides, giving bees a lifeline until Trump is gone.

2. We're building support in Congress among both Democrats and Republicans for legislation that will stop the use of sulfoxaflor and other pesticides that are wiping out the bees so that as soon as the next president is sworn in we’re ready to give the bees the help they don't have now.(7)

Will you donate $5 to help save the bees?

Yours in the fight for our environment,

Eddie, along with Analeeza, Annie, Brenna, Caitlin, Diego, Gabby, Lindsay, Mai, Mary, Molly, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team) 

Footnotes:
1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/19/us-beekeepers-lost-40-of-honeybee-colonies-over-past-year-survey-finds
2. https://www.ecowatch.com/emergency-trump-epa-pesticides-2638979880.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
3. https://www.pollinator.org/pollinators
4. https://citizentruth.org/usda-shuts-down-data-collection-on-honey-bees/
5. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/honey-bees-usda-data-collection-cut_n_5d22cbcee4b04c4814164f5f
6. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1337

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