Championing the Pollinators: The Biologist, the Broadcaster and the Beekeeper

A trilogy of talks offering three unique perspectives on those keystone beings - the Pollinators. Hosted by Pete Yeo

What’s life like in their world right now, what challenges are they facing, what opportunities are they sensing, and what might they ask of us moving forward?

Join reconciliation ecologist Pete Yeo and international experts, thinkers and feelers as they discuss pollinators. Wherever you are, you can enjoy this exchange of fascinating thought by being part of the audience and putting your questions and ideas to the speakers during the interactive Q&A sessions. See below for information about each speaker.

Thursdays, 7–8.30pm BST

8 May: Dave Goulson - The Big Picture

15 May: Kate Bradbury - How We Can Help

22 May: Michael Thiele - Reimagining Pollinators

A ticket to attend all three online talks is £20. A ticket to attend an individual online talk is £8.

Please note that you can still sign up to all three talks even after one or two have passed, as you will receive a video of all the talks once the series is over. Videos are for ticket holders only.

All ticket prices include a booking fee.

Speakers:

Pete Yeo: With past chapters involving horticulture, landscape architecture, environmental activism, philanthropy and activism, Pete is now focused on serving his longstanding passion for plants, working with them to draw attention to our ecological relationships and inviting greater coherence within and without. As a reconciliation ecologist and Nature mentor, he gives talks, guides walks, engages in consultancy, writes and broadcasts in this spirit. He is enjoying collaborating with an increasingly diverse range of partners, human and other, in the co-creation of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (quoting Charles Eisenstein). You can find out more about Pete at www.futureflora.co.uk

Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at University of Sussex, specializing in bee ecology. He has published more than 350 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects. He is the author of Bumblebees; Their Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation (2010), and of several bestselling popular books including A Sting in the Tale (2013), A Buzz in the Meadow ( 2014), The Garden Jungle (2019) and Silent Earth (2021), collectively translated in 20 languages. Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006, a charity that has grown to 12,000 members. He was given Zoological Society of London’s Marsh Award for Conservation Biology in 2013; elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013; given the British Ecological Society Public Engagement Award in 2014; given Zoological Society of London’s Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology in 2020. In 2015 he was named number 8 in BBC Wildlife Magazine’s list of the top 50 most influential people in conservation. In the seven years 2018-2024 he was named as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Thompson ISI. He is an “Ambassador” for the UK Wildlife Trusts.

Kate Bradbury is an award-winning writer specialising in wildlife gardening and the author of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything, How to Create a Wildlife Pond and The Tree in Your Garden. She’s the Wildlife Editor of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine and has a regular Country Diary column in The Guardian. She writes regularly for the RHS The Garden magazine, The Wildlife Trusts members’ magazine and BBC Wildlife. Her garden was featured as part of the BBC Springwatch Garden Watch campaign, and she and her garden have also appeared on Autumnwatch and Gardeners’ World. Kate is patron for two charities: amphibian and reptile charity Froglife and bumblebee charity Bumblebee Conservation Trust. She is also an Ambassador for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and conservation charity Butterfly Conservation. 

Michael Thiele Since 2005, Michael has been an independent apiculture consultant, presenting his work at Harvard University, NYU, Parson School of Design and others. He consulted for the USDA in the Dominican Republic and created Gaia Bees to advance biodynamic apiculture practices. In 2007, he co-founded one of the first honeybee refuges in the USA. In 2017, Michael established Apis Arborea, a nonprofit promoting deep ecology and ecosystem-based strategies for honeybee conservation. He offers workshops and training in apiculture practices and conservation programs across the USA and internationally.

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