Hi,
Beekeepers are alarmed: 4 million honey bees
just died overnight in Italy. If we want to save the bees,
we need to get Bayer’s toxic pesticides banned now,
before it’s too late.
We have a plan to do exactly that, but we can’t pull it
off without your help. Can you chip in to save the
bees?
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The bees are vanishing at alarming rates: Over
the last 10 years, we’ve lost 30-40% of our honey bees each single
year.
Just three weeks ago, 4 million honey bees mysteriously
died overnight in Italy. Local beekeepers are devastated.
Investigations are ongoing, but one thing we know for sure:
Bayer’s pesticides play a huge role in the global bee
die-off.
That’s why we want to join beekeepers all over Europe for an
ambitious plan: if we can collect one million signatures for a
European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), the EU is forced to listen to
us in a public hearing.
But Covid19 has made it hard to collect signatures on the
streets and we are behind schedule, with many key countries
missing from the tally. And the deadline is coming up fast.
Can you chip in $2 for targeted ads and translators to get enough
signatures for our ambitious plan to save the bees?
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European Citizens’ Initiatives are one of the most
powerful tools to pressure European leaders to act. But
they’re not used very often, because the bar for success is so high:
we need to gather at least 1 million signatures from more than seven
European countries. The sign-up process is cumbersome, followed by a
rigorous analysis to make sure every single signature is valid.
But it’s worth it, Vladimir. With the help of an
ECI, we managed to get the disastrous trade deal TTIP off the
table. And if we can show European politicians that there is a
massive movement fighting to save the bees, they will finally be
forced to act.
And we don’t have any time to lose. Scientists
are sounding the alarm: unless we change course now, the bee die-off
will threaten our food security. Almost all the food we eat depends
on insect pollination, and honey bees are the most important
pollinator.
But we’re still far from our target -- thousands of signatures in
key countries are missing, including from countries like Italy,
Spain and Germany. And because there’s a quota for each country, we
need to make sure we can pay for targeted ads and translators into
European languages to reach enough people.
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