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My name is Alex Antonelli and I have the great honor and pleasure of being the Director of Science here at the Royal Bottom Gardens,
Kew, and to welcome you to the beautiful Kew Gardens in this nice evening.
And we are very pleased to have a very stunning relationship with 5x15 and the 5x15x Q series.
So last year we held two series of talks where we tried to bring speakers who are very inspirational from across the disciplines to engage in conversations about the natural world and how we
as humans can engage with nature and live in harmony with nature.
And last year we had over 1,800 people attending us either live here, also online,
and then over 11,000 people watching the talks on YouTube and also on the 5x15 SoundCloud podcast in their own time.
It's amazing.
Yes, it is impressive and we are delighted to have this collaboration with 5x15.
And tonight's highlight is the talk by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.
And she's a mother, a renowned scientist, an author, an enrolled member of the citizen nation,
and she's also the creative professor of environmental biology and the founder and director of the center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
So her work encompasses traditional ecological knowledge, something that all of us, now scientists,
are becoming increasingly aware of,
and the amazing knowledge held by indigenous and traditional communities.
Moss ecology, for those of you who love Paraphrates like I do,
and also how to reach out to tribal communities and how to communicate science to the wider audience.
And she's been very well recognized for her amazing books,