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It’s not just climate change which is destroying these ecosystems. A huge factor is pesticide killing huge numbers of bugs, which these birds eat.
by cloudwalking 6y ago
It’s not just climate change which is destroying these ecosystems. A huge factor is pesticide killing huge numbers of bugs, which these birds eat.
- giardini 6y agoPlease post relevant links and arguments showing that pesticide is killing huge numbers of bugs unnecessarily (we do use pesticides for farming, after all).
- cloudwalking 6y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti... "More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered" "The analysis, published in the journal Biological Conservation, says intensive agriculture is the main driver of the declines, particularly the heavy use of pesticides."