While 75% of the most important crops depend on insect pollination, insects are in decline across the world due to industrial farming and heavy pesticide use, according to the Insect Atlas published on Tuesday 9 June by the Heinrich-Böll Stiftung and the NGO Friends of the Earth Europe (FoE Europe).
Forty-one percent of insect species are in decline and one third of all insect species examined are threatened with extinction.
Pollinators, which contribute directly to about one-third of...