ONLINE – A free webinar “Pesticide-Free Landscapes for Pollinators and People: How We Can Help,” to hear about actions to take at the state and local levels to challenge the use of pollinator-toxic pesticides, is offered February 5, 6:30 p.m.
Three experts, Pollinator Pathway advisory board members, will be panelists for the discussion.
Agricultural Conservation Lead Emily May, with the Xerces Society’s pesticide reduction program, will provide an overview of pesticide toxicity to pollinators and how that has been increasing since the 1990s. She will discuss some of the most harmful common lawn and garden pesticides, including neonicotinoids and diamides, and the science linking them to dramatic declines in pollinators and birds worldwide.
Director of the Pollinators & Pesticides Initiative, Dan Raichel, with the Natural Resource Defense Council’s (NRDC) Nature Program, will discuss the science behind the threats posed by “neonics” to pollinators, biodiversity and health as well as neonics’ prevalence in the environment. He will identify the most harmful, least beneficial uses of these chemicals, regulatory initiatives across the country and how to start eliminating needless neonic use from property, town and state.
Farmer Dina Brewster, founder of Northeast Seed Collective, and former Northeast Organic Farm Association of Connecticut executive director, will talk about her experience growing organic food and the important roles both her community and the local pollinators play in the success of her farm.
There will be a question and answer session following the presentations.
Learn more and register at pollinator-pathway.org.
