March 2013

The Bumblebee Conservation Trust continues to follow the debate about neonicotinoids and remains exceedingly concerned about their effect on pollinators, including bumblebees, and the environment.  It continues to call for the use of the precautionary principle as it is defined in Article 191 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

In calling for the precautionary principle to be invoked, the Bumblebee Conservation Trust continues to urge governments in the UK and those in Europe to:

Your countryside is in crisis!

Urge  your politicians in Brussels to vote for  farming that supports nature.

This is an urgent call for your support for a series of actions being rolled out by NGOs across Europe to try to influence MEPs ahead of the ‘crunch’ plenary session of the European Parliament on 13 March. Whilst the outcomes of the recent Agriculture Committee and EU budget negotiations were not good from an environmental perspective, there is still much to fight for. The European Environment Bureau (EEB), Birdlife International and WWF have joined forces to develop a series of ‘actions’ to target MEPs across Europe ahead of the plenary session.