Hi! My name is Jeanne, I am a 18 years-old student from Switzerland.
I’m involved in various organizations to raise awareness about topics like the climate crisis, ecology and nature protection. My most recent interest is water protection, more specifically the topic of neonicotinoids, which i discovered last year while writing my work about them.
In my free time, I also enjoy being outside, drawing and eating chocolate (among other things).
Tell us what the water concern in your country is!One of the main concerns in Switzerland is the aquatic biodiversity of our waters, threatened by issues like pollution, construction or biotic invasion.
This is what I think is one of the solutions for a sustainable future:For me, it's all about spreading awareness about the challenges we face and taking practical and political action to make a change.
Evidence of Neonicotinoid Contamination in Aquatic Invertebrates: An analysis of the current state of the river Seyon in Switzerland
Neonicotinoids are widely used pesticides whose harmful effects on biodiversity have been long recognized. This work analyzes the incidence and prevalence of five neonicotinoids in four different taxa of aquatic invertebrates in three sites of the Seyon River, in Switzerland. All samples analyzed were contaminated with at least one neonicotinoid, and two neonicotinoids found in the samples had been banned from use nine months prior to sampling: these facts highlight the substances’ ubiquity and high persistence in natural environments. The concentrations indicated a chronic exposure to neonicotinoids, except for one value which was ten times bigger than the others. These alarming results encourage further studies on the subject, in which the experimental methods developed for this work could be exploited.
