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Dear John,

We have just 12 days left to gather the 100,000 signatures needed to trigger a debate in parliament on banning pesticides from our pavements, parks, playgrounds and gardens. Please sign and share widely!
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We can all get involved in halting and reversing insect declines. Britain has 22 million private gardens; just think how much life they could collectively support if they were all wildlife-friendly. Of course this will only work if we stop spraying pesticides in our streets, parks and gardens.

At present, many councils spray pavements, edges of paths in parks, even the edges of children’s playgrounds. The most commonly used pesticide, glyphosate (usually sold as ‘Roundup’), is harmful to bees, damages soil health, and is strongly suspected of causing non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in humans. Similarly, many homeowners buy and use pesticides in their gardens, with no training, and often without wearing protective clothing. An extensive range of pesticides are sold by garden centres, DIY chains, and even most supermarkets, including chemicals that are classified as carcinogens and neurotoxins.

None of this pesticide use is necessary or desirable. It makes no contribution to food production and safe and sustainable alternatives for weed control are available, where necessary. France banned all use of synthetic pesticides in public spaces in 2017, and banned garden use from 2019. In Canada, 170 cities and towns are pesticide-free, some of them having been so for 30 years. Thanks to PAN UK, more than 70 towns and cities across the UK ([link removed]) have already taken major steps towards going pesticide-free. These and other examples from around the world prove beyond doubt that these chemicals are not needed.

Time is running out. Please take urgent action and tell the UK Government to ban urban and garden pesticides now.
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In solidarity,
The PAN UK Team
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