{"id":7871,"date":"2019-11-20T16:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2019-11-20T17:08:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T23:08:52","slug":"more-good-reasons-to-ban-leaf-blowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7871","title":{"rendered":"More Good Reasons to Ban Leaf Blowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Leaf Blowers Contributing to \u2018Insect Armageddon\u2019 and Should Be Avoided, German Government Warns<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Andy Gregory, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/leaf-blowers-insect-noise-pollution-germany-gardening-a9208366.html?fbclid=IwAR2028_T8GQWIQCv5JW15v2PRX00a98XReWTndIjO_REE-dJaqzQAllT9Ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Independent UK<\/a><\/em>, Nov. 19, 2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/leaf-blowers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leaf blowers<\/a> are fatal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Insects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-9208366-\/topic\/Insects\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">insects<\/a> and should not be used unless absolutely necessary, the German government has told citizens, days after a disturbing new\u00a0report warned than an ongoing \u201cinsect armageddon\u201d threatens\u00a0all life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The often noisy gardening tools are heavily polluting\u00a0and pose the \u201crisk that small animals are absorbed or blown and thereby damaged\u201d, the Ministry for the Environment said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest in a raft of measures taken by the German government to protect insect populations, after a 2017 study suggested that within 30 years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/flying-insects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-9208366-\/topic\/flying-insects\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">flying insects<\/a> had declined by more than 75 per cent in 60 of the country\u2019s protected areas.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows a report from a top UK ecologist, published last week, which warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-9208366-\/topic\/bugs\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">bugs<\/a> are dying out eight times faster than larger animals, with\u00a040 per cent of the roughly one million known insect species facing extinction as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of this article in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/leaf-blowers-insect-noise-pollution-germany-gardening-a9208366.html?fbclid=IwAR2028_T8GQWIQCv5JW15v2PRX00a98XReWTndIjO_REE-dJaqzQAllT9Ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Independent UK<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7873\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Leaf-Blower-Getty-Independent-e1574290204739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7873\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7873\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Leaf-Blower-Getty-Independent-e1574290204739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leaf blower blowing leaves. 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