FUTURE - Insect declines and why they matter - Professor Dave Goulson, FRES

Whilst the tonnage of pesticides synergistic interactions between different used has gone down over the last 25 years, the pesticides and between pesticides and other more worrying trends are that the number of stressors such as disease, so that the combined applications, the area of land treated and the effects of two or more stressors can be much toxicity of many of the products have increased. [...] In Whilst there is a wide spectrum of farming practice in the UK, the overuse of pesticides and fertilizers 2013, after controversy over levels of pesticide concentration in drinking water, the French is a major driver of wildlife declines and other environmental problems such as climate change, government set a target of a 50% decrease in pesticide use, promoting the principles of pollution and s. [...] In Whilst there is a wide spectrum of farming practice in the UK, the overuse of pesticides and fertilizers 2013, after controversy over levels of pesticide concentration in drinking water, the French is a major driver of wildlife declines and other environmental problems such as climate change, government set a target of a 50% decrease in pesticide use, promoting the principles of pollution and s. [...] Sadly, The decline of the garden this species declined by 89% between 1968 and 2002, thought to Appendix 2 of this document outlines a range of actions that tiger is likely to be one be a combination of the effects of climate change and increased can achieve this: helping people to understand why they of the drivers behind the tidiness of the countryside, with many fewer weeds. [...] The decline need a healthy environment; encouraging policymakers both rapid disappearance of the cuckoo of the garden tiger is likely to be one of the drivers behind the locally and nationally to put nature and people’s wellbeing at rapid disappearance of the cuckoo (down 77%), a bird species that the heart of decision-making; and incentivising sustainable specialized in eating large hairy caterpi.