Given the zealous nature of stromnessbees and the others on this forum then I would expect they will be there. If not - what does that say about their convictions ?
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I have found my local BBKA Association - North Staffordshire:-
friendly to new ideas
prepared to listen to them - ( I had an organised visit from them to see my TBHs)
and anti pesticides.
And pro bees.
And with an influx of new members over the past 5 years which has totally reversed any decline in bee numbers...
What more can I say?
(I must therefore be the spawn of Satan and a planted fifth columnist according to some of the pro neonics lobby..)
I will be there clutching my red SBA membership card which may be required if it comes to a vote.
Every football fan is a manager in their own mind! Very few are asked to prove their skills !
We can all beat our collective breasts but I have yet to see a viable solution to the problems the ecosystems are facing and increasingly so?
WW
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Bee-harming pesticides escape European ban
European commission proposal to suspend the use of neonicotinoids fails to gain backing of UK and Germany
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...e-european-ban
As far as I know there will be another chance to get the European proposal approved in about 2 months time.
With the population of Europe now increasingly aware the chemical multinationals might not be able to defend their position much longer.
It's not easy for some of us to attend those meetings.
If I can't make it then there will be others that will take note that the Glaswegian proposal is given it's full due.
Any attempts of diversions will be made known to the public, you can be sure of that.
After all, even the Women's Institute, WI, which counts over 210 000 members throughout the UK, has now come out in favor of the ban:
http://thewichair.blogspot.co.uk/201....html?spref=tw
If the SBA keeps stalling on the issue then the spotlight will be on them for explaining themselves.
Here an incomplete list of opponents and supporters of the ban:
ORGANIZATIONS/ INDIVIDUALS OPPOSING THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S PROPOSED BAN ON NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDES
DEFRA & Owen Paterson
Syngenta, Bayer, BASF
National Farmers Union
various leading members of beekeeping organizations
ORGANIZATIONS/INDIVIDUALS WHICH SUPPORT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S PROPOSED BAN ON NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDES
The European Science Agency
The European Food Safety Agency
The European Parliament
The European Commission
Tonio Bord - EU Commissioner for the Environment
The Dutch Parliament
The French National Assembly
The Polish National Assembly
The German Professional Beekeepers Union
The French Union of Beekeepers (UNAF)AVAAZ - 2.5 million people have signed the Petition against NeonicotinoidsTHE ROYAL WILDLIFE TRUSTS - ALL 47
Buglife
Pesticide Action Network UK
Friends of the earth
The Soil Association
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The Scottish Wildlife Trust
Lord Debden
Joan Walley - Chair - Environmental Audit Committee
Professor Dave Goulson - bumblebee researcher
Glasgow & District BKA
Cowall BKA
Caddenfoot BKA
The Women's Institute, WI
- Alderney Wildlife Trust
- Avon Wildlife Trust
- Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust
- Brecknock Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Cheshire Wildlife Trust
- Cornwall Wildlife Trust
- Cumbria Wildlife Trust
- Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
- Devon Wildlife Trust
- Dorset Wildlife Trust
- Durham Wildlife Trust
- Essex Wildlife Trust
- Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
- Gwent Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
- Herefordshire Nature Trust
- Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
- Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust
- Kent Wildlife Trust
- Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
- Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
- London Wildlife Trust
- Manx Wildlife Trust / Treisht Beiyn-Feie Vannan, Isle of Man
- Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Norfolk Wildlife Trust (registered as Norfolk Naturalists' Trust)
- North Wales Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Northumberland Wildlife Trust
- Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
- Radnorshire Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Scottish Wildlife Trust, Scotland
- Sheffield Wildlife Trust
- Shropshire Wildlife Trust
- Somerset Wildlife Trust
- Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
- Suffolk Wildlife Trust
- Surrey Wildlife Trust
- Sussex Wildlife Trust
- Tees Valley Wildlife Trust
- Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire
- Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country
- Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside
- Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, Wales
- Ulster Wildlife Trust, Northern Ireland
- Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
- Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
- Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
- Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
You forgot to add the Masons and other secret societies to your list opposing Doris
We can all do our bit to help by planting some flower seeds, supplied by soil association....see link below.
http://www.soilassociation.org/suppo...britainbuzzingQuote:
Friday 15 March, 2013 was a terrible day for bees as the EU failed to ban three neonicotinoid pesticides.