Harmony with Our Rivers — Jeremy Wade
Extreme angler, author, and broadcaster Jeremy Wade explores the hidden ecological world of rivers and why they matter more than we think.
Why we picked this
The host of River Monsters brings decades of fieldwork to a talk about why healthy rivers are the foundation of everything else.
Jeremy Wade spent decades traveling the world’s rivers for “River Monsters,” but this talk goes beyond the spectacle. Wade uses his firsthand experience of river ecosystems on every continent to make a broader case: rivers are the connective tissue of terrestrial ecology, and their health predicts the health of everything around them.
At Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank — itself on the Thames — Wade connects the global picture to the local one. What does a healthy river look like? What are we losing as we pollute, dam, and divert? And what would it take to restore what we’ve damaged?
Free admission as part of the Southbank Centre’s Nature Dialogues series.