Bayer’s been quietly expanding its toxic pesticide business across Africa,
wiping out the local bee population.

A group of brave scientists is fighting to get Bayer’s pesticides banned
-- but they need your help.

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John,

Scientists just sounded the alarm: Bees are dropping dead all over Africa.

And who’s behind it? You guessed it, Bayer’s bee-killing pesticides.

Thanks to you, Bayer is finding it harder and harder to sell neonics in
Europe. So it decided to take its bee-killing business to Africa and flood
the market with cheap neonics. Beekeepers have already reported plummeting
numbers.

A brave group of scientists from 17 African countries is fighting hard to
get Bayer’s neonics banned across the continent, before it’s too late.

But they’re operating on a shoestring -- so they’ve asked for your help to
build the evidence they desperately need to send Bayer’s pesticides
packing.



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Bayer’s pesticides are already having a devastating impact. Mass bee
die-offs have been reported from Benin to Tanzania. Over the last three
years, farmers in Ghana have been forced to pollinate crops by hand
because so many pollinators died.

Ghana’s cocoa yields are falling and experts say lethal neonicotinoids
like imidacloprid are to blame -- but to win over decision-makers, they
need more evidence. Key officials have signalled they could push for a
ban, but only with proof neonics are harming biodiversity in Africa -- and
almost all the research has been done in Europe. With your help,
scientists on the ground can gather the data and launch an advocacy and
media blitz to get the results out.

Showing neonics are actually hurting African economies could shift the
whole conversation, and help secure bans across the continent. All they
need is a little help to get started. Every bit extra we raise will help
us fight Bayer’s toxic pesticides across the world.

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Thanks for all that you do,
Anne and all the team at SumOfUs



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Neonicotinoid Insecticides: Use and Effects in African Agriculture. A
Review and Recommendations to Policymakers. Network of African Science
Academies (NASAC). 30 November 2019.
[ [link removed] ]Europe has banned neonicotinoid insecticides. Action is needed in
Africa too. The Conversation. 5 February 2020.

 

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