{"id":28381,"date":"2023-09-11T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28381"},"modified":"2023-09-11T21:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T04:32:26","slug":"a-huge-victory-for-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/a-huge-victory-for-the-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"A Huge Victory for the Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bees.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bees.webp 540w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bees-223x300.webp 223w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bees-112x150.webp 112w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>A Huge Victory for the Bees \u2014 And What\u2019s Next In the Fight to Save Pollinators<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>In response to an NRDC lawsuit, a federal judge last month rejected the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)&#8217;s decision to refuse to designate critical habitat for highly endangered rusty patched bumblebees.<br><br><strong>This is a huge win not just for rusty patched bumblebees, but for all pollinators and other wildlife that depend on the bee\u2019s habitat for survival. It\u2019s also a victory for NRDC supporters like you, who sent thousands of messages to the FWS in defense of these imperiled bees.<\/strong><br><br>The victory makes it more likely that we can protect these areas from destruction, including pesticide contamination and other threats, and reaffirms that the Endangered Species Act remains among our most powerful tools for combatting the biodiversity crisis.Unfortunately, bees and other pollinators are still dying at an alarming rate from a deluge of toxic \u201cneonic\u201d pesticides \u2013 and they need our help.<br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/click.email.nrdc.org\/?qs=0dba6d2731ff9d4acfc0c4247e062c95f51d237bd30f27b4573c5e8f5de907f86c233595acb762bce0885012b013840616ffa29a6a964a3c\" target=\"_blank\">Urge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban bee-killing uses of neonic pesticides and save the future of our food supply.<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(actions@email.nrdc.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Huge Victory for the Bees \u2014 And What\u2019s Next In the Fight to Save Pollinators In response to an NRDC lawsuit, a federal judge last month rejected the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)&#8217;s decision to refuse to designate critical habitat for highly endangered rusty patched bumblebees. This is&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/a-huge-victory-for-the-bees\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28393,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28381\/revisions\/28393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}