Pesticides and the loss of biodiversity How intensive pesticide use

Pesticides and the loss of biodiversity Pesticides and the loss of biodiversity How intensive pesticide use affects wildlife populations and species diversity March 2010 Written by Richard Isenring Pesticide Action Network Europe PAN Europe is a network of NGO campaign organisations working to minimize the negative impacts of pesticides and replace the use of hazardous chemicals with ecologically. [...] In an ecosystem, interdependent populations of various species deliver ‘services’ such as the supply of food and soil resources, or the retention and cycling of nutrients, water and energy. [...] One of the leading organisations in the development of IPM standards is the International Organisation for Biological and Integrated Control of Noxious Animals and Plants (IOBC). [...] However, the success of the biodiversity rescue plan will also to a large extent depend on the EU’s implementation of the new ‘Regulation on the Placing of Plant Protection Products on the Market’, as well as on how seriously member states implement the new framework directive on the sustainable use of pesticides. [...] Darwin C, and Wallace A, On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection, Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 3: 45-62, 1858.