EU Court Rules Cypermethrin Re-Approval Illegal. A landmark EU Court ruling challenges both the scientific and democratic foundations of pesticide approvals, reinforcing the need for transparency, accountability, and stronger protection of pollinators.

NGOs mobilise across Europe to call for stronger safeguards in EU pesticide reform. A growing coalition of environmental organisations is stepping up efforts to oppose the European Commission’s proposed Food and Feed Omnibus. Scientific evidence shows that chemical pesticides are a major driver of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation.

Europe cannot restore nature without reducing pesticide use. Scientific evidence shows that chemical pesticides are a major driver of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation.

More than 270 civil society organisations - including BeeLife - have signed the Antwerp Counter-Declaration, urging the European Commission to listen to the wider public affected by deregulation.

BeeLife’s Activity Report 2025 is now available. The report highlights a year marked by major political shifts in European agricultural and environmental policy. In a year shaped by regulatory uncertainty BeeLife focused on turning complexity into coordinated actions.

The crisis facing insect pollinators is no longer only an environmental issue. Today, it directly affects the economy, food security and the stability of Europe’s rural areas.

A major scientific paper that for decades helped defend Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has been formally retracted.

BeeLife is proud to announce that it has been awarded EU funding for the EUBeeLovers Project, a major milestone for our organisation and for the European beekeeping community as a whole.

BeeLife European Beekeeping Coordination has launched the tender BeeLife/EUBEELOVERS/2025/01 to select an Implementing Body for the large-scale EU-funded awareness campaign EUBEELOVERS, running in Belgium from 2026 to 2028.

BeeLife European Beekeeping Coordination has launched the tender BeeLife/EUBEELOVERS/2025/02 to select an Evaluation Body for its upcoming EU-funded awareness campaign, EUBEELOVERS, to be implemented in Belgium between 2026 and 2028.

The combination - deregulation + loss of detection capacity - creates a structural vulnerability in Europe’s biosafety architecture. BeeLife’s perspective on the provisional political agreement.

Pollinators may be invisible to most European citizens, but not to companies that base their work on biodiversity and natural ingredients.