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United Kingdom: MPs call for ban on 'nerve agent' neonicotinoid pesticides to protect dwindling bee population

2013-04-05 20:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Nerve agent pesticides should be banned until science has established whether they are to blame for the rate at which bumblebees and other insects are vanishing from the countryside, a committee of MPs has urged. The All Party Environmental Audit Committee has called for a precautionary moratorium that would prevent three types of neonicotinoid pesticide from being used on the plants that attract bees while they are in flower. The Government has opposed any pesticide ban despite pressure...

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