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Every year hundreds of thousands of pounds of dangerous pesticides are sprayed on hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural crops grown in U.S. national wildlife refuges. It's shocking that these public lands — set aside specifically to protect wildlife — are used in chemical-intensive commercial agriculture.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just proposed a first-ever rule to ensure that agriculture and pesticide use on refuges don't harm and actually help fulfill the purposes of the wildlife refuges: to ensure biological integrity, diversity and environmental health. Unfortunately, the rule doesn't go far enough.
Tell the Service to strengthen its rule to ensure that national wildlife refuges can be what they were intended to be: places where wildlife can flourish without being poisoned by agricultural pesticides.
Learn more about the risks pesticides pose to wildlife here.