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John,

Six years since we won the ban on bee-killing neonics in Europe, fields
are still soaking in bee-killing pesticides.

Governments from the UK to Romania have approved dozens of temporary
exemptions in the last year alone, allowing these banned chemicals to
continue to poison our fields – and all because of some loophole in the
law.

But with legal action, we can make governments enforce the ban.

If everyone chips in the cost of a coffee, we can build up a mega legal
fund that bee-defenders everywhere can access to sue against these
exemptions, and fight for stricter pesticide laws.

This won’t be one lawsuit – it will take many legal battles in several
countries before we get these pesticides off our fields for
good…John, can you chip in to help?



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Ever since we won the historic ban on bee-killing neonics, Bayer and
Syngenta have been trying to undermine it – now they’re sneakily helping
industrial farms come up with “emergencies” to dodge the rules and slip
their toxic pesticides past all of us.

And it’s working. There have been over 65 approvals to use banned
bee-killing pesticides across Europe since 2018. Dozens of new approvals
have been granted even after the European Court of Justice issued a clear
ruling last year: the use of emergency derogations to allow the use of
banned pesticides violates EU pesticide law.

Make no mistake, this will continue to happen over and over again until
the bee-saving ban is weakened and essentially useless. But we can change
that.

Together we fought for and won the historic bee-saving ban on pesticides
that’s sparked a wave of new restrictions and bans around the world – now
we have a new fight to make sure our governments follow the law. Can you
chip in to help? 



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We’ve gone up against pesticide giants in court before – and won. Let’s
create the biggest bee-defender legal fund in history and get bee-killing
neonics off our fields for good. Are you in?



  Thanks for all that you do,  
Yasmin and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]EU to tighten grip on emergency pesticide use with new guidance on
derogations. Euractiv. 22 May 2024.

[ [link removed] ]Bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticide has emergency approval again. BBC.
18 January 2024.

[ [link removed] ]Ban use of bee-killing pesticide in UK, business chiefs tell
government. The Guardian. 22 December 2023.

[ [link removed] ]Romania gives green light for mass extinction of bees. PAN Europe. 07
September 2023.

[ [link removed] ]‘Carpet of bees’: How Romania flouts EU ban on bee-killing
insecticides. Politico. 14 July 2022.

 

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