Friend,

Small but mighty, our bees play a big role in our environment.

We count on bees to pollinate 90 percent of our wild plants and a staggering 75 percent of our food crops. But now, bees are counting on us to defend them.

Bee-killing pesticides have contributed to alarming bee die-offs -- die-offs felt sharply by the western bumblebee, whose population has dropped by as much as 93 percent in the last 20 years.1 If we don't act, things will only get worse.

Friend, our fiscal year ends on June 30 -- and we've set a goal of raising $50,000 by then to fuel our campaign to save the bees in the year ahead. Will you donate to Environment Colorado's 2021 Fiscal Year-End Drive today to help give bees a chance?

Yes, I'll donate.

Help us tip the scales to save our bees with a donation to our 2021 Fiscal Year-End Drive today.

Neither the social and sweet honeybee nor a hard-working native bee is a match for the dangerous class of bee-killing pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or "neonics."

These pesticides impair every aspect of a bee's life -- poisoning baby bees' brains, harming adult bees' ability to navigate back to their hive, and slowly killing off bees.2,3 But for our flowers' best friends, neonics are unavoidable: One study found neonics on more than half of all sampled plants sold in stores.4

We know that it's time to return the favor and defend bees. That's why, with our national network, we're:

• Calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate, for the first time, neonics that are coated onto the seeds used for planting.
• Submitting tens of thousands of petitions to our lawmakers calling for bans on the worst uses of bee-killing pesticides.
• Knocking on thousands of doors across the country to unite the public behind our call to get Amazon to stop selling neonics.
• Championing a ban on the use of neonics in wildlife refuges, which should be safe havens for bees.

And we know we can win -- already this year, our national network has secured vital state-level protections for bees in Massachusetts and Maine. And in December, we won protections for pollinators on 11 million acres of Department of Defense-owned land. But there's still more work to do.

Will you make a donation today to help defend our best pollinators and fuel all our work toward a cleaner, greener future?

Thank you for all that you do,

Hannah Collazo
State Director

1. Ami Joi O'Donoghue, "Dramatic Decline Found in Western Bumblebee Populations," US News, July 25, 2020.
2. "Pesticides impair baby bee brain development," Science Daily, March 3, 2020.
3. Roni Dengler, "Neonicotinoid pesticides are slowly killing bees," PBS, June 29, 2017.
4. Staff, "Lowe's says it will cut out neonic pesticides -- by 2019," Concho Valley News, April 10, 2015.

Your donation will be used to support all of our campaigns to protect the environment, from saving the bees and protecting public lands, to standing up for clean water and fighting climate change. None of our work would be possible without supporters like you. Environment Colorado may transfer up to $50 per dues-paying member per year into the Environment Colorado Small Donor Committee.