Pesticides
The unnecessary use of pesticides is harming ecosystems and threatening our health.
If you’re lucky, you might see a summer’s field buzzing with bees or a flock of monarch butterflies undertaking their annual migration. But our country’s overuse of toxic pesticides is making such sights less common as it makes much of our country’s environment toxic. Seeping far beyond the initially treated zones, these pesticides are infiltrating our soil, water systems and food chains. Together, we can put our country on a safer path free of pesticides.
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Updates
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Our staff are working hard to save the bees in California, Colorado and other states
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Did You Know?
Monarch populations have dropped by more than 80% in recent decades, due in part to our country’s overuse of pesticides.
Want to learn more about the toxic impacts pesticides are having on our ecosystems and wildlife?
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Bayer’s pesticides are harming bees
The use of neonicotinoid pesticides, like those produced by Bayer, has helped make much of America’s landscape toxic to bees.
The American bumblebee is on the decline
In the past two decades, American bumblebee populations have dropped by 90%. If the decline of bees like this native pollinator isn't halted, plants and ecosystems across the country will suffer.
Showing gratitude for bees this Thanksgiving
Many Thanksgiving favorites wouldn’t be the same without bees
We’re monarchs’ best defense
After 10 long days in a chrysalis, monarch butterflies break free, ready to spread their wings and take their first triumphant flight. But the world they fly into is increasingly toxic and unwelcoming.
Team
Blackledge
Steve
Blackledge
Senior Director, Conservation America Campaign, Environment America