New York's Pollinators Need YOU!

Neonics are neurotoxic insecticides that are used everywhere: from lawns to gardens to farm fields across the country. And in New York State, we're working on phasing them out.

But we're up against HUGE chemical companies and industrial agriculture interests who are fighting to keep using these dangerous chemicals. We can't win without you. Please email your representative today and ask them to support the Birds and Bees Protection Act today.

Neonics are responsible for killing massive numbers of bees and other pollinators. We depend on pollinators to grow our food, and fewer pollinators could mean increased ...

Neonics are neurotoxic insecticides that are used everywhere: from lawns to gardens to farm fields across the country. And in New York State, we're working on phasing them out.

But we're up against HUGE chemical companies and industrial agriculture interests who are fighting to keep using these dangerous chemicals. We can't win without you. Please email your representative today and ask them to support the Birds and Bees Protection Act today.

Neonics are responsible for killing massive numbers of bees and other pollinators. We depend on pollinators to grow our food, and fewer pollinators could mean increased food prices, reduced access to healthier foods, and food scarcity that will hit low-income communities and communities of color especially hard.

Even worse, these pesticides are now showing up in the water we drink, the food we eat, and our bodies. Emerging research links exposure to neonics in the womb or early in life with developmental defects, heart deformations, muscle tremors, and memory loss. That’s why Mountainkeeper has joined forces with partners throughout the state to crack down on these toxic pesticides.

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Tell Governor Hochul: Save Our Pollinators

Send an urgent message to Governor Hochul asking her to include the Birds and Bees Protection Act (A7429/S699B) in her 2023 State of the State priorities. The bill would make New York a national leader in safeguarding pollinators, waterways, people, and the future of our food supply by banning unnecessary and harmful neonic uses.

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As a Catskill Mountainkeeper supporter and advocate for public health, clean water, and pollinators, I'm writing ask you to include the Birds & Bees Protection Act in your 2023 State of the State priorities.

The BBPA is urgently needed to eliminate the unnecessary and harmful uses of neurotoxic neonicotinoid pesticides (“neonics”), which decimate bee and pollinator populations, contaminate New York’s water resources and soil, and threaten food security and human health.

In recent years, an avalanche of peer reviewed science has emerged indicating that neonics are not only a major threat to the health of bees and other pollinators, but also pollute water, threaten birds and other wildlife, and pose risks to human health. Neonics attack pollinators' nervous systems; just last year, New York beekeepers experienced their second highest loss rate on record, losing over 53% of their colonies.

This suggests possible similar losses for the state’s 400+ species of native bees. These losses pose a serious threat to New York’s food security, as pollinators are essential to our food system, providing an estimated $439 million worth of in-state pollination services each year and pollinating every 1 in 3 bites of food we eat. Top state crops--such as apples, cherries, and blueberries--are pollinator-dependent and farmers are already experiencing lower crop yields due to the decline in pollinators.

New York needs to protect the pollinators that we depend upon for food. We can do this by banning the most needless and prolific uses for neonics, as the BBPA will do. Please include this incredibly important initiative in your 2023 State of the State priorities.

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