Technology is not going to save us, ecology will! | Theunis Piersma | TEDxFryslân 

Theunis Piersma is a professor of Global Flyway Ecology at the University of Groningen and senior research leader at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. He was a winner of the 2014 Spinoza Prize. His life-long study of long-distance migrating shorebirds is driven by love of their habitats and deep curiosity about the scope of individual bird flexibility in the light of their ecology and evolution. Theunis Piersma is a professor of Global Flyway Ecology at the University of Groningen and senior research leader at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. He was a winner of the 2014 Spinoza Prize. His life-long study of long-distance migrating shorebirds is driven by love of their habitats and deep curiosity about the scope of individual bird flexibility in the light of their ecology and evolution. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx