BDS Annual Meeting 2025
Join us online for a day of talks and discussion on Dragonflies in Britain.
This year’s Annual Meeting will be taking place online to increase access and minimise cost.
This event is free, but donations are welcome to help cover running costs.
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Programme
10:30 Introduction and announcements
10:45 Edwin Peeters, PhD (Associate Professor, Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University) ~ The relationship of dragonflies and damselflies with the aquatic environment is different for adult and larval stages.
11:15 Laura Weldon, PhD (Founder, The eDNA Consultancy) ~ Applications of eDNA as a wildlife monitoring tool.
11:45 Break
12:00 South West Peatland Partnership ~ Restoring peatlands across Cornwall, Dartmoor and Exmoor.
12:30 Q&A with morning speakers
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Hannah Boyes (WWT Senior Visitor Marketing Manager) and Lukus Robbins (WWT Creative Content Producer) ~ The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust’s Dragonfly Festival, a summer celebration of dragonflies.
14:30 Kerry Dodd (Conservation Officer, Buglife) ~ Guardians of our Rivers: Next Steps. Connecting communities across Scotland with their local rivers and the invertebrates that call these places home.
15:00 Break
15:15 Kat Mayer (Education and Engagement Officer) ~ Tarras Valley Nature Reserve; a community-led rewilding project.
15:45 Q&A with afternoon speaker
16:15 Close
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