Today is National Honey Bee Day – a day to celebrate our pollinator friends and all their contributions to our daily lives. But pesticides, climate change, industrial agriculture, and extreme weather are threatening their survival. You can protect honey bees with a gift to Food & Water Action today.
Bees are the world’s primary pollinators, with over 20,000 species globally! Our food and food security depend on their well-being. In fact, one out of every three bites of food is thanks to pollinators. But the growing threats posed by industrial agriculture is a reminder that we need to act now to protect honey bees and other pollinators.
Pollinators stabilize the soil, clean the air, supply oxygen and support ecosystems. But the United States has lost at least 30 percent of its bee colonies annually since 2006.
The use of pesticides called neonicotinoids is one culprit in their decline, and these pesticides are used by large industrial farms. Neonicotinoids are persistent in soil and water, and remain in the environment for a long time – meaning they will continue to poison not only the bees, but us.
We can save honey bees and bring back their numbers. It starts with changing our farming system and how we grow food. That’s why Food & Water Action is fighting for a future where we ban large-scale pesticide use, and where farmers are empowered to grow food sustainably and promote biodiversity.
Food & Water Action and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Watch, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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