⚠️ Takeaway:
✅ Imidacloprid harms insectivorous birds (also shown in 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇱).
❗️But banning a pesticide alone isn’t enough—habitat restoration and ecosystem recovery actions are essential to help insects 🐞 and birds 🐦 bounce back.

📊 Key finding:
Before the ban, sites without imidacloprid hosted 12.7% more insectivorous birds than treated sites.
After the ban, the gap narrowed to 9% → a slight recovery, but far from a full population rebound

We studied the impact of imidacloprid on 57 sedentary bird species across 🇫🇷 before (2013–2018) and after (2019–2022) its ban. 🐦🌱

These results were made possible thanks to the support of @frbiodiv.bsky.social

Why it matters 👉 TAT identifies the most toxic molecules + hotspots where biodiversity policies should focus.
Recent bans (e.g. diquat, neonicotinoids) reduced pressures, but impacts on biodiversity still need to be confirmed. 🌍 #biodiversity #TAT

Our findings:
⬇️ Pressure decreased for 4 groups (terrestrial vertebrates, pollinators, soil organisms, aquatic plants)
⬆️ Increased for 1 (aquatic invertebrates)
➡️ Stable for 3 (fish, terrestrial arthropods, terrestrial plants)

Spatially, highest pressures = North & West France.