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[ [link removed] ]The image shows a close-up of a dead honeybee lying on a green leaf.

John,

Donna’s millions of thriving bees went silent a few weeks ago, falling
dead in heaps in the middle of the blooming wildflower field where they
had lived for years.

She’s not alone.

Beekeepers everywhere are experiencing higher than normal die offs,
threatening the already desperate bee population.

The culprit is often heavy and illegal pesticide use by nearby farmers or
corporations. But it’s impossible to prove and even harder to enforce,
until now. Donna raised enough money from small online donations to test
her bees, identify the pesticide and investigate the culprit. Now the
government is involved and the bee killers are being tracked down.

There are so many devastated bee stewards like Donna who need help finding
their own bee killers and stopping them inflicting more damage. We can
help.

Each test is $10,000 and if just a hundred of us reading
this email give a hundred $ we can launch an investigation.
If thousands of us give, we can launch investigations all over the world
and start to really claw back the pesticide abuse threatening bees
everywhere!



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One investigation is an important start. But a movement of people
committed to protecting bees across the planet, ready to investigate die
offs, campaign against the companies causing them and hold them
accountable? That’s a world changing force!

That’s what we can do together if we raise enough right now.

There is no one these beekeepers can turn to when devastation strikes.
Donna was lucky enough to raise money from her community. But regulators
wouldn’t do anything until she had the evidence in hand. We know that bees
are essential to our food and life, but when those tending to the
struggling bee population face attack from reckless corporations and
farms, no one steps in.

We can change this – giving hope to those reeling from such huge losses
and scaring off those poisoning bees with impunity. Let’s come together
now and make it happen:



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Over and over again our community has stepped in when governments have
failed to regulate the corporations under their watch. Billions of bees
have fallen victim to this failure. It’s about time we stood up and said,
enough is enough.



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



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]US honeybees suffer second deadliest season on record. The Guardian 23
July 2023

[ [link removed] ]‘Bees are sentinels’: mass bee die-offs signal the wider impact of
Brazil’s pesticide boom. Unearthed 27 February 2020

 

Anything extra raised will power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting
for people and the planet.

 

 

Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

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