> what are the author's affiliations?
This is their own CV:
Rosemary Mason, MB ChB FRCA, Former Consultant Anaesthetist
1) Assistant Editor, Anaesthesia, Journal of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland from 1990-2000.
2) Familiarity with the actions of drugs and toxins on central nervous system receptors.
3) Noted that successive Governments had dismantled the Statutory Conservation Bodies, closed the Wildlife Research Stations and abolished pesticide committees that had one (or more) independent members to represent public interest.
Palle Uhd Jepsen, Former Senior Adviser to the Danish Forest and Nature Agency
1) In charge of Nature Reserve Network in Denmark
2) Represented Denmark at Wildlife Conventions such as IWC, Ramsar Convention, Chairman of Seal Group for ASCOBANS (Small cetaceans in the Baltic).
3) Gave advice on conservation projects such as in Thailand, Malaysia, Estonia, Lithuania and Northern Ireland.
4) Worked for several seasons at the Polar Research Institute in Svalbard.
Together
1) As environmentalists we have seen the disappearance of wildlife in the last 50 years. Acceleration of this has occurred in the last 15 years. In particular, amphibian, bees, bat and bird populations in the US have been wiped out by a variety of pathogens. Since about 2008 the same has been happening in Europe. News has been suppressed.
2) In 2006, we established a small reserve for bumblebees and birds in South Wales.
3) In 2008, I read Michael Schacker’s book about neonicotinoids in the US. "A Spring without Bees. How Colony Collapse Disorder has Endangered our Food Supply."
4) In November 2010, we read Dr Henk Tennekes’ book: The Systemic Insecticides – a Disaster in the making. We linked up with him and a massive global network. We started to ‘engage’ with Environmental Protection Agencies around the world.
5) We discovered that it wasn’t just bees that were affected. It was humans as well.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmenvaud/writev/668/m5.htm
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