Date: 10/8/26 9:00 am From: Eve Waterman via groups.io <eve.m.waterman...> Subject: [hmbirds] Sign-On Letter: Support the Birds and Bees Protection Act
Hello,
Forwarding an advocacy request from the American Bird Conservancy regarding
the Birds and Bees Protection Act passed in NY in 2023 for anyone wishing
to support their efforts to have this legislation fully implemented and
enforced.
Best,
Eve Waterman
Conservation Cte
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From: Edward Hardy Kern <EHardyKern...>
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Subject: Sign-On Letter: Support the Birds and Bees Protection Act
To:
Dear All,
American Bird Conservancy invites you to join us on a letter
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFyR4k2LGBEQepZ52ZHR9Ntk7fLveQjI55H9RwfbPJFPn4VA/viewform?usp=header> to Gov. Hochul asking her to direct the Department of Environmental
Conservation to fully and faithfully implement the Birds and Bees
Protection Act. The BBPA was passed in 2023 to protect New York’s wildlife,
habitats, and waterways from neonicotinoid insecticides by reducing use
through 3 main avenues: lawns/turf, ornamentals and woody plants, and row
crop seeds.
An exemption written into the bill to allow trained professionals to use
neonics to combat invasive pests on woody plants is being over interpreted
by the NY Department of Environmental Conservation to allow use of neonics
for any invasive pest, even when on lawns or turf.
We are asking Gov. Hochul to direct the DEC to tighten their regulations
under the law and execute it faithfully and in the spirit in which it was
passed.
