Native Plants, People & Pollinators

Tuesday, February 21

7 pm

Location: Webster University; Browning Hall/Interdisciplinary Science Building (ISB) Auditorium- 8274 Big Bend Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63119 (Park in the parking garage on Garden avenue.)  See Webster University Campus Map here.

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Presenter: Ed Spevak, Ph.D.

Native Plants, Native People, Native Pollinators:  An Indigenous Way of Thinking and Acting: I will discuss using the 4 R’s of indigeneity in relating to the environment and even to our own gardens

Dr. Ed Spevak has dedicated the last 43 years of his career to the conservation of invertebrates and vertebrates working in zoos and aquariums as a zoo curator and small population biologist. Ed is the Curator of Invertebrates at the Saint Louis Zoo and is Director of Saint Louis Zoo’s WildCare Institute Center for Native Pollinator Conservation (CNPC). Ed and the Saint Louis Zoo helped to establish the IUCN SSC Bumble Bee Specialist Group (now the Wild Bee Specialist Group). Ed and the Zoo also helped establish the Honey Bee Health Coalition, Farmers for Monarchs and Missourians for Monarchs Collaborative. Ed is also a member of the Science Advisory Council of Field to Market looking at biodiversity issues in the sustainable agriculture chain. Ed, through the CNPC, has developed a program called Native Foods, Native Peoples, Native Pollinators focused on food security, food sovereignty and pollinator conservation with Native American Reservations and Communities.