{"id":5069,"date":"2018-07-31T19:21:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2018-08-15T19:43:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T19:43:22","slug":"ban-with-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/ban-with-a-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban With a Plan: Join us to #BanNeonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s in our wildlife. It\u2019s in our fields. It\u2019s in our food. It\u2019s in our water.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">And, it\u2019s toxic.<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>\u201cFor years now, neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides have been poisoning our pollinators and aquatic insects. There are hundreds of scientific studies that have demonstrated the serious harm of neonics to pollinators. When I was a child, DDT was a serious threat to our wildlife. I am concerned that history is repeating itself.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>~David Browne, Director of Conservation Science,<br \/>\nCanadian Wildlife Federation<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the Canadian Wildlife Federation, we are working fiercely against the harmful effects of these <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/proposed-ban-on-imidacloprid\/\">pesticides<\/a>.\u00a0Watch the video to learn how <a href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/news-features\/articles\/neonics-101.html?src=blog\">neonics<\/a> spreads through our environment. <a href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/pdf\/infographic_neonics_en-aug.pdf?src=blog\">\u00bb Download the Infographic PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ARJJAV_8TAU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>Our solution?<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/banwithaplan.org\/?src=blog31\">Ban With A Plan<\/a>:<\/strong> A five step plan to remove this threat. <a href=\"http:\/\/banwithaplan.org\/?srsc=blog31\">Sign our &#8220;Ban With A Plan&#8221; Petition! \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Step 1: Ban the use of neonics.<\/h4>\n<p>The Canadian Wildlife Federation calls for a legislated, national ban on the use of all forms of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/case-for-pollinators-canada\/\">neonicotinoid pesticides in agriculture<\/a>, horticulture, turf production and golf courses. Under the ban, emergency use of neonics would be permitted for a limited number of years. However, this would only be under cases of severe pest outbreak and with a prescription from a certified agronomist.<\/p>\n<h4>Step 2: Give Farmers Alternatives and Incentives to Use Them<\/h4>\n<p>Share knowledge with farmers on <a href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/resources\/gardening\/gardening101\/green-gardening\/?src=blog31\">alternate pesticides<\/a> and pest management technologies and techniques \u2013 and provide incentives to use these, including crop insurance that protects farmers from crop failure for farmers who choose not to use neonics.<\/p>\n<h4>Step 3: Recover Affected Species<\/h4>\n<p>Recover species impacted by neonics, including wild bees, hoverflies, other insect pollinators and aquatic insects. Also help species experiencing the indirect effects of neonics due to reduced food availability, such as birds, bats and fish.<\/p>\n<h4>Step 4: Encourage Research and Development on Safer Pest Control Technologies<\/h4>\n<p>Support the development of pest-specific chemicals (or biological agents) with limited environmental effects \u2013 to encourage the development of longer term, directed products.<\/p>\n<h4>Step 5: Reform How the Government Protects Our Food Supply<\/h4>\n<p>Improve risk assessment methods for pesticides, including oversight and greater transparency in how pesticides are licensed and regulated, to ensure the seriously harmful pesticides are not licensed by the Canadian government. End the licensing of systemic pesticides.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Industry<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Develop pesticides that target particular agricultural pests, and refrain from producing systemic pesticides that are designed to be used prophylactically.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consumers<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Sign the petition to support CWF\u2019s plan to ban neonic pesticides<br \/>\n2. Avoid buying garden seeds and plants treated with neonics, and garden or pet insecticides including neonics<br \/>\n3. Avoid using household and gardening products that contain neonics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What You Can Do<\/h3>\n<figure style=\"width: 362px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banwithaplan.org\/?src=blog31\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/banwithaplan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/farmer.jpg\" alt=\"Fruit seller\" width=\"362\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We\u2019ve developed a five-step plan to not just ban neonics, but also help farmers, policy-makers and the environment recover from the devastating effects of this pesticide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.banwithaplan.org\/?src=blog31\">Sign the Petition<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong>Our goal is to garner 100,000 signatures supporting the ban of neonics to the Minister of Health. This would support step one of the plan, moving us towards rehabilitating our environment from this neurotoxic insecticide.<\/p>\n<p>We need to take action. All Canadians must and can be part of the solution: government, farmers, businesses, and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>As Canadians, we can do better. We <em>must<\/em> do better.<\/p>\n<h4>Join with us. <a href=\"http:\/\/banwithaplan.org\/?src=blog31\">Sign the &#8220;Ban With A Plan&#8221; petition<\/a> to support our plan for the future.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">It\u2019s in our wildlife. It\u2019s in our fields. It\u2019s in our food. It\u2019s in our water. And, it\u2019s toxic. \u201cFor years now, neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides have been poisoning our pollinators&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,642,6,638,641,637,633],"tags":[3783,3785,55,45,3789,3787,41,1032,603,194,591,310,22],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-connect-with-nature","category-education","category-endangered-species","category-fields-forests","category-gardening","category-lakes-rivers","category-canadian-wildlife","tag-banneonics","tag-banwithaplan","tag-flowers","tag-gardening-2","tag-gardening-4-wildlife","tag-green-gardening","tag-habitat","tag-petition","tag-pollinators","tag-species-at-risk","tag-wild-about-birds","tag-wild-about-gardening","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}