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To the European Commission and EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius

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Dangerous pesticides are banned in Europe – but they still get exported to Africa and South America, killing bees and devastating communities. We need the EU Commission to outlaw the export of banned pesticides!

Why is this important?

The evidence is clear: neonics and other poisonous pesticides kill bees. That’s why they’re banned in Europe. [1]

Yet European companies like BASF and Bayer-Monsanto are still producing these pesticides and shipping them to places in Africa and South America – making millions in profit. [2]

But now a movement is underway to stamp out these deadly export loopholes. Already France has outlawed the export and transport of banned pesticides.

We need to make sure the EU Commission follows suit and outlaws the export of those pesticides for all European companies. But it won’t act unless it hears from people like you.

Will you call on the European Commission to ban the export of dangerous chemicals already banned in Europe?

References:

https://www.science.org/content/article/pesticides-can-harm-bees-twice-larvae-and-adults
https://www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/pesticides/banned-in-europe

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Monique

Les pesticides dangereux sont interdits en Europe, mais ils sont toujours exportés, tuant les abeilles et dévastant les communautés du monde entier. Nous avons besoin que la Commission européenne interdise l’exportation de pesticides interdits ! TOUS ENSEMBLE SOUTENONS LA en signant et en partageant

Máire

Bees are vital for pollination.

Harry

Het zordvuldigheidsprincipe is een wereldwijd beginsel voor de handel. We willen geen vrijbrief als Europese burgers voor producten die de biodiversiteit aantasten.

Diane

FROM DIANE WALLACE, FORSYTH County, North Carolina Resident- Let’s protect ALL species and retain their habitats. Soon it will be too humid to sweat. And once the permafrost thaws past a certain point then the temperature of the Ocean will rise such that plankton will die off leading to an oxygen poor atmosphere starting above sea level.

Fiona

Europe should not be manufacturing and selling products whose use it has banned.

Adriana

Het moet veranderen

Ferry

Stop the killing!!!!

Silas

Save the bees!

Sasa

urgent action needed

ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ

We can all do agriculture very well without them!

Olivia

Why on Earth do people do this? I know what they are if they do this. Idiots! Nincompoops!

Michel

Bees are life

Sarah

Save The Bees!

Patrick

That s the minimun to do to help mother nature

Andrew

We've seen the harm these do to bees and to people.

Adelaide

Hi fonte like agrotóxicos because kill propõe and animald

Sandra

Ban pesticides!

Brigitte

We all should know better by now, even the big companies

helena

Dangerous pesticides are imported into Serbia. They sell them officially, without warning.

Jose

All the pesticids are destroying the humanity race all over this planet. Money is the first thing, that the boss killers wants. This is a nightmare, and we must to change this. I'm fighting for healthy lifes of all humains all over the world. Stoping the bloody wars, that makes money their first interess. We are to much intelligents to accept this, at this time! stop killing people in all diferent ways. The time arrive and together we must fight. There are no powers, whether from the North, South, East or West of planet Earth, impose death through wars, death through the destruction of nature, destruction of life, by economic interests, political power or whatever, for people like us. We appeal to the Superpowers around the world, and all countries in general, to immediately stop, this type of attitude.

Catherina

Don’t poison the world just for profit!!

Brian

When the bees have gone its the end of the world.... Albert Einstein.

Miguel

Thanks for your important work. Thanks for the an Natural Future more logical. This is our hope! Me *}

Vesa

Ban the export of bee-killing pesticides!

Orlando

Stop poisoning our future.

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Every year, Bayer-Monsanto, Syngenta and BASF export more than 81,000 tonnes of extremely toxic pesticides to countries where environmental and worker protection rules are weak or non-existent – killing bees and devastating communities.

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