Friend,

When baby bees eat food contaminated with neonicotinoid pesticides, they experience permanent and irreversible brain damage. This makes it harder for them to learn how to navigate from their hive to flowers and back -- and it's a big part of why bee populations are collapsing.1

These toxic neonics are everywhere -- they're the most widely used class of insecticides in the world.2 If we're going to save the bees, we have to get off neonics.

Donate now to our 2021 Fiscal Year-End Drive to help fuel our campaign to save the bees -- and if you donate before midnight tonight, your gift will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $25,000 nationwide.

Getting off neonics isn't going to be easy, but with your help, here's how we're going to win:

• By convincing Amazon to stop selling neonics, just like we helped convince Lowe's and Home Depot to commit to taking these toxic pesticides off their shelves. And to build support, we're knocking on doors all across Colorado this summer to ask the public to join our campaign. Double your impact by donating now >>
• Calling on Colorado to ban the worst uses of neonics. Earlier this month, our sister group Environment Maine successfully led the charge to pass our nation's strongest bee protections. Double your impact by donating now >>
• Urging the Biden administration to ban the use of neonics in wildlife refuges, the places where bees should be safest, and asking the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the worst uses of these toxic pesticides nationwide. Double your impact by donating now >>

Will you stand with us -- and with baby bees -- by making your matched gift right now?

Thank you for your support,

Rex Wilmouth
Senior Program Director

1. Katie Hunt, "Pesticides damage the brains of baby bees, new research finds," CNN, March 3, 2020.
2. "Neonicotinoids," Cornell University, last accessed June 21, 2021.

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From: Environment Colorado <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2021
Subject: Be a champion for our environment
To: Friend <[email protected]>

Friend,

Bumblebee populations have plummeted by as much as 93 percent over the past two decades.1

Other kinds of bees have seen similar declines. Our best pollinators are being decimated by toxic neonicotinoid pesticides (or neonics), habitat loss and climate change.

We have to stand up for bees -- and that's where you come in, Friend. Our fiscal year ends at midnight tonight, and if you donate before then, generous donors will match your gift, doubling your impact up to $25,000 nationwide. Donate now.

None of our work would be possible without supporters like you. I've put together your latest member record -- take a look:

With your help, here's how we're going to save the bees:

• By convincing Amazon to stop selling neonics, just like we helped convince Lowe's and Home Depot to commit to taking these toxic pesticides off their shelves. And to build support, we're knocking on doors all across Colorado this summer to ask the public to join our campaign. Double your impact by donating now >>
• Calling on Colorado to ban the worst uses of neonics. Earlier this month, our sister group Environment Maine successfully led the charge to pass our nation's strongest bee protections. Double your impact by donating now >>
• Urging the Biden administration to ban the use of neonics in wildlife refuges, the places where bees should be safest, and asking the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the worst uses of these toxic pesticides nationwide. Double your impact by donating now >>

We've accomplished so much together in the past year, from securing protections for bees on millions of acres of Defense Department-owned land to winning a suspension of oil and gas drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

As we look to the year ahead, I'll hope you'll be right there with us as we work to protect our pollinators, defend our public land, fight global warming, and so much more.

Donate before midnight tonight, and your gift will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000 nationwide.

Thank you for standing with us,

Rex Wilmouth
Senior Program Director

P.S. If you've already contributed to our 2021 Fiscal Year-End Drive and you're getting this email, we may still be processing your gift. Thank you so much for your support.

1. Ami Joi O'Donoghue, "Dramatic Decline Found in Western Bumblebee Populations," US News, July 25, 2020.

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.