Reading people urged to join bee campaign

Reading people are being urged to get busy as a national bee campaign takes to the streets on Saturday. The activities are all part of The Bee Cause, an initiative organised by the Friends of the Earth, who called for a nationwide day of action to draw attention to how the use of chemicals in farming and horticulture are posing a threat to the nation’s bees. A University of Reading report, Decline of England’s Bees, found that increased use of insecticides used on crops pollinated by bees was having a dire effect on bees, and the increased use of herbicides was destroying important food sources for them too.

The main thrust of the Friends of the Earth campaign is to petition David Cameron calling for a National Bee Action Plan, to ensure something is done in farming and town and city planning that will be sympathetic to bees and reverse their decline. Further activities to highlight the bees’ plight are planned for Reading during September.

Source: Get Reading, 6 September 2012
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