John,

Deadly pesticides and genetically engineered crops are on their way back to national wildlife refuges. In a huge giveaway to the pesticide industry, the Trump administration has greenlighted the use of poisons on these public lands set aside for wildlife protection.

This action reverses a 2014 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to do just the opposite: ban GE crops and neonicotinoids throughout the refuge system. And so now 150 million acres of important pollinator and bird habitat will be exposed to increased pesticide use — without considering the risks to our nation's most endangered species, as required by law.

Sign our petition urging the Service to drop this plan and defend our wildlife refuges.

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A massive body of science shows that neonicotinoids are highly toxic to pollinators, aquatic invertebrates and birds. They're a leading driver of bee declines. And allowing herbicide-tolerant genetically engineered crops on wildlife refuges will open the door for these crops to be drenched with pesticides like glyphosate, dicamba and 2,4-D in quantities that would normally kill all plants.

Act now to insist that Trump's Fish and Wildlife Service withdraw this pernicious plan to destroy our national wildlife refuges and the rare plants and animals that call them home.

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