New Zealand Green Party calls on Government to suspend neonicotinoid insecticides | Bird decline, insect decline and neonicotinoids

“The Government must intervene to protect New Zealand honeybees from pesticides that have been implicated in bee deaths,” Green Party food spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today. The Green Party today launched a nationwide petition calling on the Government to suspend the use of Neonicotinoid pesticides until the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) has reassessed them. Neonicotinoid pesticides which have been linked to bee deaths around the globe are widely used in New Zealand on crops and pasture.