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Polar Bears Threatened By Pesticides
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, polar bears, pesticides, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 8 days ago - courthousenews.com
Polar bears, already threatened by habitat loss from melting sea ice, face additional dangers from pesticides that cause immune, endocrine and reproductive problems, environmentalists say.
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Environmental Lawsuit Looking Out For Polar Bears
Animals  (tags: lawsuit, polar bears, threatened, pesticides, protection )

Simone
- 13 days ago - avvo.com
A concerned environmental group filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, alleging the organization has neglected to investigate the effects of pesticides on Alaskan polar bears.
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Pesticides Blamed for Vanishing Bees
Animals  (tags: animals, bees, pesticides, environment, habitat, protection, killing )

Cher
- 79 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Some pesticides could be to blame for the decline in bees according to a film, backed by the Co-operative group, that explores mysterious deaths in hives around the world
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Pesticides Blamed for Killing Bees
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, bees, pesticides, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 101 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The collapse in Britain's bee population is being made worse by pesticides that are banned in much of EU, according to a new study.
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Pesticides Used In California's Central Valley Killing Frog Populations in Nearby Sierras
Animals  (tags: frogs, killed, poisoned, pesticides, wildlife, destruction, humans, sierras, populations )

Simone
- 128 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Scientists have determined the chemicals that make the Central Valley a rich agricultural region are responsible for frog deaths and tadpole abnormalities in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Just when it seems things can't get much worse for our cold-
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Lawsuit Pending to Protect Polar Bears From Pesticides
Animals  (tags: animals, polar bears, protection, pesticides, lawsuit pending, AnimalWelfare, environment, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 160 days ago - ens-newswire.com
A conservation group says that in 60 days it will sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to consider impacts of contamination resulting from pesticide use in the United States on the threatened polar bear and its Arctic habitat.
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Bayer Pesticide Chemicals Linked to Devastating Collapse of Honeybee Populations
Animals  (tags: animals, bees, pesticides, killed, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 164 days ago - all-creatures.org
German government researchers have concluded that a bestselling Bayer pesticide is responsible for the recent massive die-off of honeybees across the country's Baden-Württemberg region. In response, the government has banned an entire family of pesticide
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ACTION ALERT: Save Frogs and Protect Human Health!!!
Animals  (tags: northern leopard frogs, poisoned, pesticides, humans, health, threatened, conservation )

Simone
- 177 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The northern leopard frog may be smaller than a cup of tea, but this tiny amphibian is in big trouble. Once prevalent throughout North America, threatened northern leopard frogs are put at an even greater risk by endosulfan -- a deadly pesticide that's
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Save Lions From Carbofuran Pesticide Poisoning ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, death, pesticides, poisoned, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, wildlife, protection, habitat, wildanimals )

Cher
- 195 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Currently, carbofuran pesticide is easily accessible in Kenya. It is used to keep wildlife out of crops, but once one animal has been poisoned, the carcass attracts other wildlife. The poison then travels from carcass to predator, leading to horrible
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Tell the EPA to Protect Kids From Dangerous Pesticides in Pet Flea Products ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, flea products, AnimalWelfare, pesticides, pets, kids, environment, protection )

Cher
- 213 days ago - change.org
Although we have safer options for controlling fleas on our pets, the EPA still allows dangerous pesticides to be used in flea collars and other products. Tell the EPA to prohibit the use of these toxic chemicals in pet products.
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US Environmental Protection Agency Bans Carbofuran
Animals  (tags: pesticides, animals, ecosystems, pollution, habitat )

Cal
- 221 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced its final decision to revoke all food tolerances for the highly toxic pesticide carbofuran, which is sold under the name "Furadan" by FMC Corporation.
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Save The Birds
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, endangered, species, ddt, pesticides, peregrine, falcon, hawaii, wildlife, environment, protection, conservation, habitat, ecosystems, humans, nature )

Tom
- 232 days ago - latimes.com
"People focus on the fact that indeed a large number of birds are declining, but what we have learned in the past 20 or 30 years is that, if we actually read the data and adjust our behavior and do some conservation, they can rebound."
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Is Your Shopping List Killing Songbirds?
Animals  (tags: birds, pesticides, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 289 days ago - wildcarebayarea.org
Pesticide use is of special concern, due to the large amounts of produce being shipped to North America from Latin American countries.
3 comments
Take Action ! Kill the Poison, Save the Bees! !
Animals  (tags: bees, environment, death, pollinators, pesticides, habitat, wildlife )

Cher
- 292 days ago - petitiononline.com
Something is killing honey bees, and even as billions are dropping dead across the world, researchers are scrambling to find answers and save one of the most important crop pollinators on Earth.
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'Rain' of Dead Birds on Central N.J. Lawns Explained; Federal Culling Program Killed Up to 5,000
Animals  (tags: dead birds, Central N.J., Federal Culling Program, dead starlings, Griggstown, pesticides )

Barbara
- 324 days ago - abcnews.go.com
The black carcasses of dead starlings still pepper the snowy roads and lawns of central New Jersey's rural Griggstown community three days after federal officials used a pesticide to kill as many as 5,000 of the birds.
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