*[Enwl-eng] Banned bee-killers

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                        Bayer is ramping up sales of bee-killing pesticides across Africa. Bees are dropping dead and scientists in Ghana are raising the alarm. They’re calling for a national clamp down, but they’re up against powerful industry lobbyists.

                        Can you chip in $2 to fund research into harmful pesticides in Ghana?

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            A new investigation shows how pesticide giants Bayer and Syngenta are undermining all the work we've done to ban bee-killing pesticides in Europe -- by ramping up sales across Africa!

            These toxic double standards threaten to decimate bees and other pollinators across the continent -- already beekeepers have reported plummeting numbers.

            Now an alarmed group of scientists in Ghana are campaigning for a national ban on neonics. This would be a huge win that could set off a chain reaction in other countries, showing the chemical giants they have nowhere to turn.

            But they can’t do it without your help -- the cocoa industry is Ghana’s biggest neonics user and the powerful Cocoa Board is in bed with pesticide manufacturers.

            With extra funds the scientists can gather irrefutable evidence of the damage wrought by neonics in Ghana and convince the politicians these chemicals must go. 

            Can you chip in $2 to supercharge the campaign?

            Yes, I will chip in $2 to stop bee-killing pesticides in Africa.

            This is toxic corporate behaviour. It’s what the cigarette companies did too -- beaten in Europe and North America, they went to prey on African countries where people have fewer regulatory protections. We need to back this campaign to show all corporations with harmful products they can’t just dump their poison on Africa with abandon.

            In Ghana, pesticides are already having an impact. Cocoa covers over 30% of Ghanaian farmland, which is now loaded with lethal neurotoxins like imidacloprid, which leach into surrounding soil. Yields are falling and experts say it’s because these chemicals are harming key pollinators -- but to win over key officials, they need more evidence.

            Ghana has an election coming up so it’s the perfect time to ramp up the pressure. With your help, Ghanaian scientists can run a study to show the damage neonics are wreaking on local biodiversity and then launch a huge advocacy and media push to get out the results.

            Showing neonics are actually hurting Ghana's economy could shift the whole national conversation and help secure a ban -- that could spread across the continent. Can you chip in?

            Yes, I will chip in $2 to stop bee-killing pesticides in Africa.

            Our community was crucial in winning a prohibition on toxic neonics in Europe. Right now we have an opportunity to launch a fight that will close off another market for the chemical giants trashing the planet.


            Thanks for all that you do, 
            Olivia and all the team at SumOfUs 


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            More information:

            Neonicotinoid Insecticides: Use and Effects in African Agriculture. A Review and Recommendations to Policymakers Network of African Science Academies (NASAC). 30 November 2019.
            Europe has banned neonicotinoid insecticides. Action is needed in Africa too The Conversation. 5 February 2020. 
              
       
      SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. 


      From: Olivia Boyd, SumofUs 
      Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2020 5:36 PM
      Subject: Banned bee-killers

     

  
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