Tell your Senators to help save bees!

The best way to protect bees is to reduce the use of toxic pesticides -- and support non-toxic management of our environment. This bill brings us closer to doing that.

Tell your Senators to support this bee-saving bill!

Dear Senator,

As your constituent, I urge you to co-sponsor Senator Merkley’s Pollinator Recovery Act to help protect pollinators and our food supply because bees and other pollinators are dying at alarming rates.

Pollinators are a critical part of our food supply. Bees are responsible for one in every three bites of food we eat and pollinators contribute as much as $577 billion in global food production and nearly $27 billion in the U.S. alone. Without them we would lose many foods such as apples, almonds and blueberries.

The U.N. estimates 40 percent of pollinator species, including bees and butterflies, are on the brink of extinction. Beekeepers have lost an average of 40 percent of their hives with some beekeepers losing 100 percent of their operations. In the past twenty years, monarch butterflies have declined by nearly 90 percent. Native bees are dying at alarming rates too. In March, the rusty patched bumble bee was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act after having declined 87 percent in recent years. While this is an important step forward, all pollinator species need your help.

This bill would help protect pollinators by expanding conservation programs, emphasizing the development and adoption of integrated pest and vegetation management practices, increasing pollinator-friendly habitat that is regionally appropriate, offering financial and technical assistance for growers to implement a variety of conservation practices and restoration efforts on active and retired lands and increasing research into the issue.

Senator Merkley’s bill modernizes agricultural statutes and enhances conservation activities to deliver creative solutions that protect America’s pollinator species and the vital agricultural systems they serve.

It is vitally important that you co-sponsor The Pollinator Recovery Act and advocate for its passage this year. The reasonable steps in this bill will help protect the health of pollinators and keep bees, butterflies and other pollinators healthy and thriving.

Sincerely,

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