Friend,

Right now, our dwindling bee populations are up against the triple threats of habitat loss, climate change and bee-killing pesticides.

Yet if you buzz on over to Amazon.com, you can find all sorts of products the company can deliver right to your door -- including bee-killing pesticides.1 With nearly 25 percent of native bee species qualifying as imperiled, we need Amazon to deliver a little relief for our best pollinators by stopping its sale of the pesticides that kill them.2

Join us in calling on Amazon to remove bee-killing pesticides from its site.

With more than $386 billion in annual revenue and 95 million Prime members in the United States -- roughly 1 in 3 Americans -- it's safe to say that Amazon is a giant in the marketplace.3,4

Our bees? Not so big. In fact, the endangered rusty patched bumblebee is on the larger side for bees, and it comes in at just a half-inch in length.

Still, no matter their size or endangered status, our bees don't stand a chance against a dangerous class of bee-killing pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or "neonics." From poisoning baby bees' brains to impairing a bee's ability to find its way home, neonics are no good for our best pollinators.5,6

So we're looking to Amazon to make a difference, because this retailer giant can have an outsized impact when it comes to saving our bees.

Tell Amazon: Stop selling bee-killing pesticides.

After 40 percent of American honeybee colonies died, scientists warned that these unprecedented bee die-offs could catalyze a "catastrophic collapse of Earth's ecosystems."7

We need bees and the science is clear: We can't same-day ship a new species. Now is our last best chance to protect the bees we have left, and ensure that their populations can bloom again. Will you help us take it?

Call on Amazon to give bees a chance.

Thank you,

Hannah Collazo
State Director

1. Matthew Chayes, "Insecticides found in about 30% of Long Island groundwater samples, report says," Newsday, January 24, 2020.
2. Maryellen Kennedy Duckett, "Nature needs us to act--now," National Geographic, March 4, 2020.
3. Shelley E. Kohan, "Amazon's Net Profit Soars 84% With Sales Hitting $386 Billion," Forbes, February 2, 2021.
4. Secret deals: Here is how you can shop on Amazon and save big," Click2Houston, April 5, 2021.
5. Simone Tosi, Giovanni Burgio and James C. Nieh, "A common neonicotinoid pesticide, thiamethoxam, impairs honey bee flight ability," Science Reports, April 26, 2017.
6. "Pesticides impair baby bee brain development," Science Daily, March 3, 2020.
7. Aylin Woodward, "Last year, 40% of honey-bee colonies in the US died. But bees aren't the only insects disappearing in unprecedented number," Business Insider, June 21, 2019.