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(How) we did it - Europe just banned bee-killing pesticides!!

5/2/2013

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The following "article" is an AVAAZ email, thus it's not written by idea mater editors. We hereby reproduce it in order to highlight AVAAZ's work and for a better understanding of the bee conservation struggle. All images and text by AVAAZ.


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Dear amazing Avaaz community, 

We did it -- Europe just banned bee-killing pesticides!! Mega-corporations like Bayer threw everything they had at this, but people-power, science and good governance came out on top!! 
Bee "die in" at Bayer's headquarters, CologneVanessa Amaral-Rogers from the specialist conservation organisation Buglife, says: 
“It was a close vote, but thanks to a massive mobilisation by Avaaz members, beekeepers, and others, we won! I have no doubt that the floods of phonecalls and emails to ministers, the actions in London, Brussels and Cologne, and the giant petition with 2.6 million signers made this result possible. Thank you Avaaz, and everyone who worked so hard to save bees!”Bees pollinate two thirds of all our food -- so when scientists noticed that silently, they were dying at a terrifying rate,Avaaz swung in to action, and we kept on swinging until we won. This week’s victory is the result of two years of flooding ministers with messages, organizing media-grabbing protests with beekeepers, funding opinion polls and much, much more. Here’s how we did it, together:


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