John,

Europe’s wild bees are in a death spiral – and in the next few days the EU could make it much worse.

The European Commission is proposing changes that would allow pesticide approvals to be granted indefinitely – with no mandatory safety reviews and no requirement to consider new scientific evidence on the harmful impacts of the chemicals in these products.

If this goes through, Bayer’s toxic chemicals could stay in the market forever!! Unless we stop it.

If enough of us donate in the next 24 hours, we can launch a rapid-response campaign targeting the Commissioners and key officials before they finalize it – including legal research, an impact assessment, and an investigation into contacts between European Commission officials and the pesticide lobby.

We’re ready to throw everything we can at this and defend the laws that protect nature and people. All we need now is your help to do it – can you chip in to save the bees?

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Wild bees pollinate a third of our crops. Without them, we would lose apples, almonds, tomatoes, strawberries, and countless other foods we rely on. Their survival is our survival. And toxic pesticides are decimating whole populations of them. A new official report shows that in the last decade the number of wild bee species at risk of extinction has more than doubled.

The Commission’s proposed changes would accelerate their deaths, eliminating the mandatory renewal process, scientific assessment, and safety reviews for some of the most dangerous chemicals that are in use across Europe. It would be the biggest rollback on pesticide protections the EU has ever seen and cause untold harm to pollinators, nature and our health. 

Right now, the pesticide industry is working hard to rush this through before the public catches on. They have deep pockets and powerful connections, but we can still stop it – if we move fast.

We have only a few days to influence what happens next. If we raise enough in the next 24 hours, we can act quickly and confidently to the work and reach decision-makers before our window of opportunity closes. 

Millions of us helped win a Europe-wide ban on bee-killing neonicotinoids and forced some of the world’s biggest pesticide companies to pull their products from the market. Now the threat is even more dangerous. Decades of progress could be wiped out overnight.

John, this is a defining moment for bees and for the laws that protect all of us from toxic pesticides. Your donation now will help support our work to protect nature and people – can you chip in to help us save the bees?

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