Greenpeace targets Syngenta on bee deaths...

Greenpeace activists claiming pesticides decimate bee populations demonstrated on Wednesday at the headquarters of Swiss agrichemical giant Syngenta, hanging a huge banner outside.

The banner, reading "Syngenta Pesticides Kill Bees!", was unfurled by Greenpeace environmental campaigners who scaled the company's office building in Basel.

Greenpeace has demanded that Switzerland follow the lead of neighbours France, Germany and Italy in banning the contested pesticides, which are also forbidden in Slovenia.

As in many countries, Switzerland has seen its population of the crucial insect slump, and the authorities have named a "bee tsar" to try to find ways to save the species.

 Greenpeace and other anti-pesticide campaigners charge that Syngenta's Actara and Cruiser brands contain chemicals which hamper bees' direction-finding and flight, thereby reducing their ability to obtain food and rendering them vulnerable to disease. Full story...

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