Save the bees
ByGreenpeace foundation
The community group activist i choose was Greenpeace.
The Greenpeace organization inspires people to take part in their communities to save the bees.
Greenpeace is a global network of independent campaigning organizations that raise money, use peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace is raising awareness in Canada as to why so many bees are dying and how much we rely on them to survive.
Scientists know that bees are dying from a variety of factors—pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and more. Many of these causes are interrelated. The bottom line is that we know humans are largely responsible for the two most prominent causes: pesticides and habitat loss. Winter losses have commonly reached 30-50 percent, in some cases more.
Biologists have found more than 150 different chemical residues in bee pollen, a deadly “pesticide cocktail” according to University of California apiculturist Eric Mussen. The chemical companies Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, Dow, DuPont and Monsanto shrug their shoulders at the systemic complexity, as if the mystery were too complicated. They advocate no change in pesticide policy. After all, selling poisons to the world’s farmers is profitable.
Furthermore, wild bee habitat shrinks every year as industrial agribusiness converts grasslands and forest into mono-culture farms, which are then contaminated with pesticides. To reverse the world bee decline, we need to fix our dysfunctional and destructive agricultural system.
“In the last four years, the chemical industry has spent $11.2 million on a PR initiative to say it’s not their fault, so we know whose fault it is.”
This is why Greenpeace’s awareness is important to spread awareness.
The message Greenpeace is trying to get across is that without bees we are in big trouble and that everyone should put in some effort to save them.
Greenpeace is working on these three solutions to save the bees everyday
- Ban the seven most dangerous pesticides.
- Protect pollinator health by preserving wild habitat.
- Restore ecological agriculture.
Greenpeace has a list of things you can do to participate to be apart of saving the bees they are….
.build a hive/buy
.plant some flowers or any type of plant
.create a bee friendly garden
.go organic
.try not to use chemicals/pesticides
.don’t kill bees on purpose
.sponsor local activists/organizations
.sponsor Greenpeace
.spread awareness to other people
I chose Greenpeace because they have a well structured organization to save the bees and they are one of the only good websites that i could find.
In the each of the topics Greenpeace explains how the problem can/could be solved.
