The UK will support a total ban on insect-harming pesticides being used across Europe, environment secretary Michael Gove has announced
In a reversal of the government’s previous position, the UK will back a ban on bee-harming pesticides, environment secretary Michael Gove revealed to the Guardian on Thursday. The decision is thought to make a total EU ban much more likely.
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Michael Gove said new evidence on neonicotinoids – a class of insecticides that damage the central nervous system of insects – indicated the risk to bees and other insects was “greater than previously understood”.
A field trial published in July showed that neonicotinoids damage entire bee populations, not just individual insects. And a global analysis of honey revealed worldwide contamination by the insecticides.Without a healthy pollinator population, we put the whole ecological balance of our world in danger
It also follows the revelation that 75 per cent of all flying insects have disappeared in Germany and probably much further afield too, a…
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