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Date: 27 May 2021
The Wildlife Trusts have explored legal action in response to the permitted use of the bee killing pesticide THE Wildlife Trusts including Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have explored a legal challenge to a decision to allow the use of a bee killing pesticide. Today, The Wildlife Trusts’ lawyers contacted the Environment Secretary, George Eustice, to question his decision to allow the emergency use of the banned neonicotinoid Thiamethoxam for sugar beet. The trusts believe the action may have been unlawful and are planning a legal challenge to the decision unless Government can prove otherwise. In 2018 the UK Expert Committee on Pesticides refused a similar application because of unacceptable environmental risks and the trusts contend that no new evidence has been provided to support this decision and the ban should stay.
NEONICOTINOIDS DEFRA has approved an emergency application for English sugar beet growers to use a neonicotinoid seed treatment against virus yellows. Neonicotinoids were banned across the European Union in 2019 – which at that time included the UK – as concerns grew over their effects on bee populations. While manufacturers cited research that the chemicals do not actually kill pollinators, other studies suggested that neonicotinoids have a negative effect on bee behaviour, such that colonies fail in the long term because their normal food gathering and breeding activities are disrupted. In the end, the EU decided to err on the side of caution and remove its authorisation for the outdoor use of three neonicotinoids – clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.