97% of endangered species threatened by 3 common pesticides

Fauna

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published its first analyzes of the effects of three common pesticides—Chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and malathion — in nationally designated endangered and threatened species with their habitats in critical condition.

The bottom line is that pesticides are terrible for them. According to the report, malathion and chlorpyrifos harm an alarming 97 percent of the 1.782 animals and plants protected under the Endangered Species Act. The Diazinon drops that percentage to 79 percent.

Malathion is often used in fruit, vegetables and plants for pests, as well as for the elimination of ticks in pets. Chlorpyrifos are used to kill termites, mosquitoes, and worms. Diazinon is intended for cockroaches and ants.

The three species of chemicals are likely to adversely affect those species, EPA has found and says Lori Ann Burd, director of environmental health at the Center for Biological Diversity:

For the first time in historyFinally, we have data showing how catastrophic these pesticides are for endangered species, from birds to frogs and from fish to plants. Those dangerous pesticides have been used without proper testing for decades and now is the time to take this new information and create common sense measures to protect plants, animals and people from those chemicals.

The EPA has allowed chemical companies register more than 16.000 pesticides without properly considering its impacts. This has to stop. Those evaluations are a big step forward for EPA. Now that we know the magnitude of the danger these pesticides pose, it is clear that we need to take action. EPA must move forward with testing for other hazardous pesticides and quickly implement efforts to prevent the extinction of rare and unique wildlife from those pesticides.

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