If you're indoors right now, take a moment to open a window and listen.
Chances are, if you’re reading this from North America, you’re not hearing birds singing.
It’s not a surprise. Recent reporting shows North American bird populations have plummeted by 3 billion in the last 50 years.
Why's it happening? New research points to one culprit we know all too well for its link to catastrophic bee die-offs: neonic pesticides.
Now, these poisons are also linked to mass bird deaths. One biologist calls this simply, "the loss of nature."
Hundreds of thousands of SumOfUS members like you got the EU and Canada to drop these nicotine-like pesticides tied to disappearing songbirds. You’ve persuaded Home Depot and Lowes to ditch neonics too.
Now we’re preparing to show food giants General Mills and Kroger they need to ditch neonics and Monsanto’s Roundup too -- and your help is vital. Your monthly donation will make sure we have money we can count on every month to buy billboards, hire scientists and storm corporate headquarters.
I’ll chip in every month to help save billions of birds from pesticide poisoning.
More information
New York Times. 19 September 2019.
National Geographic. 12 September 2019.