BRUSSELS: The EU on Tuesday announced proposals to try to reverse an"alarming decline" in the number of bees - and other insects that pollinate the bloc's crops - including by rewarding organic farming.
The proposal calls for promoting farming - organic or otherwise - that protects pollinating insects, cutting back on pesticides, better monitoring of pollinator populations, and better conservation of habitats including in urban areas.The commission estimates that pollinators - mostly bees, but also hoverflies, moths, and some beetles and other insects - contribute around five billion euros a year to the bloc's food production.
"Pollinating insects have declined dramatically in diversity and abundance in the last decades, with many of them being threatened with extinction," the commission said in a statement. It focuses on wild populations of bees and other pollinators as the EU has other tools aimed at supporting honeybee farms.
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