02:45Germany: Activists build bee cemetery outside Berlin Chancellery to protest massive insects decline
Activists from the NGO Campact have set a "bees graveyard" in front of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, on Wednesday, to protest the decline in insect populations and to demand a new law to protect them. The activists laid out about 200 oversized cardboard cutouts of bees with candles next to them.
"We are here today because we have a dramatic dying off of insects in Germany and our Minister of Agriculture, Julia Klockner, is blocking an urgently needed insects protection law," said Campact activist Gerald Neumann, adding "the federal government has promised to protect the insects better."
Bee populations have declined by as much as 75 percent in Germany, Neumann said.
"Mrs Klockner has to finally present a plan for the reduction of pesticide usage, she has to present a plan for the exit from the glyphosate usage and she has to stop to block the suggestion from Mrs Shulze, for a better protection of biotopes," he added.
German Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) could be also seen on site, supporting the activists.
02:45Activists from the NGO Campact have set a "bees graveyard" in front of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, on Wednesday, to protest the decline in insect populations and to demand a new law to protect them. The activists laid out about 200 oversized cardboard cutouts of bees with candles next to them.
"We are here today because we have a dramatic dying off of insects in Germany and our Minister of Agriculture, Julia Klockner, is blocking an urgently needed insects protection law," said Campact activist Gerald Neumann, adding "the federal government has promised to protect the insects better."
Bee populations have declined by as much as 75 percent in Germany, Neumann said.
"Mrs Klockner has to finally present a plan for the reduction of pesticide usage, she has to present a plan for the exit from the glyphosate usage and she has to stop to block the suggestion from Mrs Shulze, for a better protection of biotopes," he added.
German Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) could be also seen on site, supporting the activists.