Worldwide integrated assessment on systemic pesticides

In July 2009, a group of entomologists and ornithologists met at Notre Dame de Londres, a small village in the French department of Herault, as a result of an international enquiry amongst entomologists on the catastrophic decline of insects (and arthropods in general) all over Europe. They noted that a perceptible and gradual decline of insects, as part of the general impoverishment of the natural environment, had set in from the 1950s onwards....