Bee devastation: Campaign for total ban of neonicotinoid pesticides

Bayer managers have known the risks of a pesticide class called neonicotinoids for the environment since the beginning of the 90ies. The company downplayed the risks, submitted deficient studies to authorities and accepted the loss of honey bees in many parts of the world. After huge bee deaths in Germany last year the Coalition against Bayer Dangers brought a charge against Bayer for knowingly endangering the environment.

=> background article

=> New study (2010): Long-term risks of imidacloprid undervalued

=> Bulletin of Insectology (2010): The puzzle of honey bee losses

=> Charge against Bayer Board

=> Pesticides: Germany bans chemicals linked to honeybee devastation

=> Open Letter to the European Union

=> Big Win for Bees: US Judge Pulls Bayer Pesticide

=> Sierra Club urges EPA to suspend nicotinyl insecticides: http://www.sierraclub.org/biotech/whatsnew/whatsnew_2008-07-30.asp

=> Press Release of the Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (German): http://www.jki.bund.de/cln_044/nn_813794/DE/pressestelle/Presseinfos/2008/1605__BienensterbenClothianidin.html__nnn=true

=> Bee-keepers and environmental groups demand prohibition of pesticide "Gaucho"

=> French Institutes Finds Imidaproclid Turning Up in Wide Range of Crops

=> 2003 report from the "Comité Scientifique et Technique de l’Etude Multifactorielle des Troubles des Abeilles" http://agriculture.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/rapportfin.pdf