Effective January 2016, France is banning neonicotinoids

[Karim Sahli]

Source here (in French).

Google translation bellow:

Thursday, March 19, 2015, the Parliament adopted an amendment tabled by Gerard Bapt and Delphine Batho, which prohibits the use of pesticides in the neonicotinoid family, responsible for the mortality of bees, as of January 2016.

The prohibition covers all the family néocotinoïdes to prevent the industry substitute product cousins ??after the withdrawal of a specific product, “explained Gerard Bapt, MP for Haute Garonne and also doctor.

The problem is that the European regulation “does not allow a strict ban on these chemicals” recalled the Minister of Ecology Ségolène Royal. So members will continue to fight to impose this measure the inevitable future pressures of lobbies and farmers.

The decline of bees calls into question the future of humanity

The National Union of French Beekeepers (UNAF) has alerted the government in 2014 stating that honey production this year was only about 10,000 tonnes, 3 to 4 times less that 20 years ago.

“Worse than the 2012 and 2013 already extremely difficult for French beekeepers, domestic production is the lowest in 2014 in our history. With the exception of West and Brittany that seem somewhat spared in all regions of France and especially in the major production regions like Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon … harvests are down 50 to 80%! ” explained the Unaf in a statement released in September.

The main cause of this mass extinction of bees? Pesticides! They are accused by many scientific studies to be responsible for the increasing decline in the number of pollinating insects, especially bees.

You should know that the decline of bees, which are vital insects for pollination of plants and therefore for food production, may jeopardize the future of humanity. Of the 100 plant species that provide 90% of the food in the world, over 70% depend on bees for pollination!

Choose to refuse the use of toxic chemicals and to protect bees, thus choose to protect biodiversity, the environment, our health and our future.

They now seem finally members have heard the cry of alarm beekeepers and understood the urgency of the situation!

Alexandre Sieradzy

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