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Call to Bayer shareholders: Stop the attack on health and environment protection

April 24, 2025

Organisations from across the globe call on Bayer shareholders to end their attempts to undermine laws and regulations that protect the population and the environment. In Europe, for example, Bayer an...

Arthropods
Interview with entomologist Theo Zeegers - A world without bumblebees?

April 10, 2025

We are in the middle of a mass extinction. This alarming loss of biodiversity jeopardises our joy of life and endangers food production. No bugs, no fertile soil. The current EU pesticide regulation f...

Garden
Highly toxic pesticides on sale for inexpert users

April 8, 2025

Karate, Delete, trade names for highly toxic pesticides sold to individuals online and in garden shops. We looked at gardening products and insect repellants in Belgium. PAN Netherlands did the same i...

Pesticides Spry
Spain exported 17,000 tons of pesticides banned in the EU in one year

April 1, 2025

Spain authorized the export of nearly 17,000 tons of substances harmful to people and the environment  in 2023, mainly to the Global South. This is exposed in the new report ‘Double Standards, Do...

Protest
Close Toxic Loopholes: Stop Hazardous Exports & Save Biodiversity!

March 31, 2025

We gathered in front of the European Commission building in Brussels with representatives of environmental and international NGOs, to demand urgent action to stop the export of EU banned pesticides an...

Arthropods
Pesticides threaten the bulk of life on Earth - Interview with Prof. Dave Goulson

March 26, 2025

Insect and other arthropod populations are rapidly declining. This alarming loss of biodiversity jeopardises our joy of life. After all, what would the world be like if children grew up without the jo...

Plant
Pesticide Action Week 2025

March 20, 2025

Spring is here, full of new life. But it is also the start of the spraying season. With a Pesticide Action Week, we and our members and partners in different EU countries ask attention to the devastat...

Pesticide
Pesticides contaminate on a landscape scale - far beyond the fields

March 18, 2025

A new groundbreaking studyA new groundbreaking German study proves that pesticides spread much further from the field than previously believed. A team of scientists led by Professor Dr. Carsten Brühl ...

Dead bee
Acetamiprid: the brain-toxic neonicotinoid we must urgently leave behind

March 12, 2025

Neonicotinoid insecticides pose not only a serious threat to biodiversity, but also to human health. Already in small doses they can affect the developing brain of young children. France is trying to ...

Water
EU SCoPAFF meeting: the end of PFAS pesticides?

March 6, 2025

The future of two PFAS pesticides will be decided in a March 11-12 meeting between the EU Member States and the European Commission. The substances are flufenacet, an endocrine disruptor, and flutolan...

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