Friend, you still have time to make a gift to save the bees.

We're calling on Amazon to keep bee-killing pesticides off its online shelves. With all the save the bees merchandise you can find on Amazon, the company doesn't need to sell toxic chemicals that paralyze, disorient and kill bees.

With your support, we can amplify our campaign to convince the mega-retailer to get serious about saving the bees.

And if you give right now, your donation will go twice as far to save the bees. Generous donors are matching all gifts given before midnight tonight, up to $100,000 nationwide.

Help protect the bees from toxic pesticides with a matched donation before midnight.

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery
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From: Environment Colorado <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Dec 26, 2022
Subject: Gallons of bee-killing pesticides on the virtual shelves
To: Friend <[email protected]>

Friend,

Search "save the bees" on Amazon and you'll find thousands of products.

Save the Bees socks. Bee-themed necklaces and bracelets. Save the Bees hoodies. Even keychains with bee food in them.

But on the very same platform, Amazon sells gallons and gallons of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.

We're pointing out Amazon's inconsistencies and working to convince the mega-retailer to take bee-killing pesticides off the shelves. Will you donate to our Year-End Drive and help us save the bees?

As many as 1 in 4 bee species are imperiled.1 Neonicotinoids -- or neonics for short -- poison bees' central nervous systems, causing neurological damage, paralysis and death.2

These neurotoxic chemicals cause bees to have trouble foraging and learning, and they die off at alarming rates.3

The evidence is so potent that The Home Depot and Lowe's -- two of the nation's largest home garden centers -- agreed to take neonics off the shelves. But Amazon is still selling them.4

We need the bees. Ninety percent of wild plants and 75% of all food crops rely on pollination, and bees are nature's best pollinators. We can't live without them.5

Environment Colorado has successfully persuaded giant corporations to act in the interest of the environment before, and we can do it with Amazon. And our Amazon campaign is just one part of our campaign to save the bees -- we're working to stop the use of neonics on public lands and pass state legislation against the worst uses of the pesticides as well.

That's why we've set an ambitious goal to raise $200,000 by December 31 in order to make sure our environmental work in 2023 is as strong as possible.

Will you donate to Environment Colorado today and help save the bees?

Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. Mary Katherine Moore, "We're calling on Amazon to help save the bees," Environment America, July 22, 2022.
2. Stephen Leahy, "Insect 'Apocalypse' in U.S. Driven by 50x Increase in Toxic Pesticides," National Geographic, August 6, 2019.
3. Oliver Milman, "Fears for bees as US set to extend use of toxic pesticides that paralyse insects," The Guardian, March 8, 2022.
4. Mary Katherine Moore, "We're calling on Amazon to help save the bees," Environment America, July 22, 2022.
5. Mary Katherine Moore, "We're calling on Amazon to help save the bees," Environment America, July 22, 2022.

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.