COP15 – What’s at stake when it comes to pesticides?
What is CBD COP15? This month in Montreal, Canada, delegates from around the world are meeting at COP15- the UN Conference on Biological Diversity, Conference of the Parties (COP15). The [...]
The Retained EU Law Bill: an unprecedented risk to pesticide regulation
In the midst of the political chaos that gripped Westminster this autumn, on 22 September, the government tabled the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (REUL Bill). As the [...]
Sixty years later, book that launched environmental movement exposes Government’s inaction on pesticides
The UK Government's "dither and delay" approach to pesticide policy continues to put the health of our natural world at serious risk, sixty years after author Rachel Carson first [...]
NEW REPORT “Chemical Pollution: The Silent Killer of UK Rivers”
Steph Morren has written this blog, introducing a new report from Wildfish, RSPB, Buglife and The Pesticide Collaboration called Chemical Pollution: The Silent Killer of UK Rivers. “The most [...]
“Pesticides and Wildlife” – new RSPB report
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to [...]
National Food Strategy: a half-baked attempt to reform the food system
On Monday, the Government published it's food strategy white paper – the much anticipated response to the National Food Strategy, authored by restauranteur Henry Dimbleby. In his introduction, Dimbleby said: [...]
Tackling “Big Apple”: Lessons in Pesticide Campaigning
Set up to urgently reduce pesticide-related harms in the UK, we at The Pesticide Collaboration are taking a closer look at pesticide campaigns over the last sixty years. For [...]
Silent Spring at Sixty: Lessons in Pesticide Campaigning
Set up to urgently reduce pesticide-related harms in the UK, we at The Pesticide Collaboration are taking a closer look at pesticide campaigns over the last sixty years. For [...]
Springtime signs of the times?
2022 marks sixty years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, and so, sixty years since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the Global North. Many of [...]
The weather has not saved the bees this time
As we reported here and here, the Government approved the use of the banned pesticide thiamethoxam for sugar beet in England in 2022. The same approval was given last [...]