The UK Government and retailers are under pressure to impose a ban on sale of pesticides linked to bee population decline following new research which groups call a 'growing body of evidence'. Environmental groups including the Soil Association and Buglife are making a renewed call for an end to the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which are among the most commonly used pesticides worldwide, after a new study linked them to a decline in bee populations.
From the Ecologist, part of the Guardian Environment Network guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 August 2010 09.49 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/06/pesticides-bee-declin…
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