Mark,
Europe’s bees are being pushed to the brink by toxic pesticides, but together you and other SumOfUs members are pushing back.
This month we took to the streets in cities all over Europe to hand in the petition 230,000 SumOfUs members signed telling our governments to vote for bee-saving standards at the EU. Thank you!
In Berlin, Germany
Europe was a hive of activity as SumOfUs members, partners, and beekeepers
swarmed agricultural ministries in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Riga, Bucharest and Dublin.
Together, we told our politicians to adopt Bee Guidance, the new pesticide testing standards that would prevent bee-harming chemicals from hitting Europe’s fields.
In Bucharest, Romania
In London, UK
We held face-to-face meetings with the ministers who’ll be voting on Bee Guidance and we got many of them, including France and Germany, to express their support for the guidelines and for the work you’ve done to protect the bees.
Our partners and SumOfUs members even persuaded Romania, one of the most pro-pesticide countries in the EU, to say it would act according to beekeepers’ interests after our meeting!
The Bee Guidance vote was scheduled for 20th May, World Bee Day. But a day before our events, we were surprised to find out it was being pushed back.
Thanks to our public pressure, too many countries were changing their position, and the EU didn’t think it could get a consensus for a vote.
That gives us more time to convince straggling governments that bees’ lives are worth more than pesticide lobbyists’ cash, so we get a majority in the EU.
We’ve only gotten this far thanks to donations from members like you, which funded these live events as well as attention-grabbing ads in the EU publication Politico.
Will you chip in monthly to double down on our bee-saving efforts and turn this into a landslide victory for the bees?
No comments:
Post a Comment