ApocaDocs: Bird group calls for halt to widely applied insecticide

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Posted Tue Mar 19 2013: from USA Today:


	Bird group calls for halt to widely applied insecticide http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1363707414 ...The [Anerican] Bird Conservancy, one of the nation's most active bird-conservation groups, released a 97-page report Monday that says that independent studies of the damage to birds and aquatic ecosystems they depend upon for food raise "significant environmental concerns" and that the Environmental Protection Agency has been too lenient in allowing the use of this class of insecticides, called neonicotinoids. Their possible role in the decline of honeybee populations in the USA and Europe has spurred intense debate among scientists, wildlife advocates and manufacturers, and the EPA is re-evaluating its registration of this class of insecticide.

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