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December 6, 2016 at 11:20 pm

A new study in Science says tighter pesticide regulation is crucial to reversing the dramatic population declines of bees, butterflies and other pollinators. The study comes on the heels of the most comprehensive assessment of the world’s pollinators, which found that 40 percent of pollinating insects are threatened with extinction. “The science is clearer by the day: To save butterflies and bees from extinction, we must overcome our culture’s dangerous and totally unsustainable addiction to pesticides,” said Kelsey Kopec, a native pollinator researcher at the Center for Biological Diversity and research in USA. Credit the technical data and information to the organisation and research team. Many latest studies regarding the subject carried out by experts in the field have found out that it is imminent that we have to make tighter rules to protect the pollinators like bees and butterflies. It is becoming clearer day by day that over dependence on pesticides is having a harmful effect on the lives of the pollinators which form a crucial part of the food chain which helps in the growth of the crops on which so many other life forms depend to fulfil their needs of hunger. Use of bio pesticides have to be increased and farmers have to be given additional benefits for using such systems all over the world. 

Use of science for the purpose of commercial reasons and manufacture and growth of pesticides for this reason has had a very negative effect on the pollinators and those using them as their food and crops which depend on them to ultimate grow. If steps are not taken to reverse this trend this will result in drastic reduction of pollinators and lead to decreased output of crop production affecting the availability of food, which gets affected. Reduction in dependence on pesticides by using alternative means will help in the revival of the pollinators which will help sustain ecology and crop production and environment. Scientists conduct their studies and show the mirror to governments and societies to act on the mistakes being commited and do the necessary course correction which is a essential part of the objective. It is the responsibility of the governments and societies all over the world to heed to their sane advice before it is too late. Dear readers you can play a small role by sharing and disseminating the information to the concerned people or the government agencies who matter. Let’s hope for a safer world and better future.