Title: Environmental Impacts | Pesticide Action Network
Headings: Environmental Impacts
Environmental Impacts
Bees, Bats & Frogs Dying Off in Droves
Bee populations have dropped 30% per year since 2006.
Mystery of Disappearing Honeybees
Male Tadpoles Become Females in Contaminated Water
Fouled Waterways Endanger Fish & Birds

Content: PAN works hard to promote agricultural systems that protect and strengthen, rather than contaminate, our natural ecosystems. Bees, Bats & Frogs Dying Off in Droves
Five great extinction events have reshaped earth in the past 439 million years, each wiping out between half and 95% of planetary life. The most recent was the killing off of dinosaurs. Today, we're living through a sixth great cataclysm. Seven in ten biologists believe that mass extinction poses an even greater threat to humanity than the global warming which contributes to it. Amphibians were the first to start dying off – in 1998 scientists identified the cause as a type of fungus, with population declines showing a strong correlation to pesticide exposure. A few years later America’s honeybees started dying – populations have dropped by 29% - 36% each year since 2006 (see below). Bee populations have dropped 30% per year since 2006. Bats are the most recent victims. In 2006 the first cave floors were found covered with dead bats in the Northeast.