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- The municipal formation will present a motion in the Plenary of the month of December so that the City council watches the fulfillment of the European agreements in the matter of prohibition of the use of the three neonicotinoides pesticides in the municipality of Murcia and so that the Consistory develops a campaign of awareness in the Huerta de Murcia and its field

NOW MURCIA demands that the City Council take measures for the protection of the bees of the municipality, since its disappearance is a global phenomenon that causes very serious problems in the ecosystems and that requires the action of the different administrations.

The councilor Angeles Micol explains that "the municipality of Murcia, with its field and its garden, is a space that treasures a great variety of species of flora and fauna and the problem of the disappearance of bees affects us in an important way".

For this reason, Now Murcia will present a motion in the Plenary of the month of December, which is held next Thursday, for the City to monitor compliance with the European agreements on the prohibition of the use of the three neonicotinoid pesticides in the municipality of Murcia.

The text of Ahora Murcia also proposes that the Consistory develop an awareness campaign in the Huerta de Murcia and its field on the value of bees and other pollinating insects.

Regarding neonicotinoid pesticides, Micol recalls that they are "clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam" and that "last April the EU Member States agreed to prohibit their use almost completely, following the warnings of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) on its risks for bees and other insects. "

The mayor stresses that "in recent times there have been awareness campaigns about what is happening around the world with bees, among these campaigns is Greenpeace, which notes that 'Bees and other pollinators have an essential role in ecosystems, and about 75% of the food we consume and 90% of wild plants depend on pollination. "

The data accepted by all the experts is that in the United States 60% of bees have already disappeared;

in Europe 50%;

and it is suspected that in China and other countries the situation is worse.

The crisis reaches such a point that England is importing hives of healthy bees.

"Multitude of plants depend on them to reproduce, and without these plants, we would die of hunger humans", warn entities and administrations and now picks up Murcia.

According to the data published by Greenpeace in its report 'Food under threat', it has been calculated that the economic value of the work of pollination of bees and other pollinators for agriculture is about 265,000 million euros per year worldwide, 22,000 millions for Europe and more than 2,400 million euros for Spain.

"Faced with these figures that highlight the vital importance of bees and other pollinating insects," explains Micol, "we find the data that warn of their dangerous situation, such as the report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Services of the Ecosystems (IPBES, for its acronym in English), which warns that 40% of invertebrate pollinators, particularly bees and butterflies, are facing extinction.The problem, therefore, is very serious and demands to be confronted decisively from the different administrations, in this case, from the City of Murcia ".

Source: Ahora Murcia