EPA continues to ignore the bee extinction epidemic … could end in collapse of ecosystem

‘A coalition of farmers, food advocates and environmentalists from across the U.S. recently paid a visit to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) headquarters, where they stacked a wall of plastic containers filled with more than 2.6 million dead bees – the victims of a pesticide-induced pollinator holocaust that federal regulators don’t seem at all concerned with addressing.
The “Keep the Hives Alive” tour is trying to grab the attention of apathetic government power-holders whose blatant disregard for the epidemic of Colony Collapse Disorder, also known as CCD, threatens to eliminate bees from the planet by the year 2035. Bee colony numbers reportedly declined by roughly 40 percent between 1947 and 2005 – from 5.9 million to 2.4 million.
And the situation has gotten progressively worse in recent years: In the span of just one year, from 2015 to 2016, honeybee colonies declined by a shocking 44 percent.’
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