Using bees and AI to reduce pollution

Brut America

Bees are better at collecting data than any human technology. The startup BeeOdiversity is using that data to regenerate biodiversity and reduce pollution.   Paid Partnership with 100+ Global Accelerator

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00:00In these hives you have 50,000 bees and they will collect four billions of samples per year like natural drones

00:07Collecting pollen, collecting water, collecting nectar. No other tools can do that

00:16And I can show you here

00:18Each color is a different kind of pollen. The bees are collecting the pollen to feed themselves and the pollen

00:24contain the DNA of all the plants in this environment

00:26Then we will analyze the pollen and we will look for more than 500 pesticides, heavy metals

00:31But also with the DNA analysis, we will identify each plant that we have here in our environment

00:53And it's just amazing what they can do. In one hive like this you have just a super organism

01:06It is 50,000 bees and all of these bees need deodors. For me, that's a real model for the human

01:23Hives are really important because that's the only place where you can find a lot of pollinators

01:30And you can find a lot of pollinators in the hives

01:33And you can find a lot of pollinators in the hives

01:35And you can find a lot of pollinators in the hives

01:37And you can find a lot of pollinators in the hives

01:39Hops is really important because that's the only place in Africa where we have the production of hops

01:51Hops is really important because that's the only place in Africa where we have the production of hops

01:55And there are more than 1,000 people which are working here

01:58We have a lot of alien species here, including here the pines, the black waddle, the achaea

02:03And it's a really huge problem here because I use between 40 and 60% more water than in natural area

02:08And we can say that it's a real issue

02:10Unfortunately, the invasive plant species has a huge impact on the biodiversity

02:14And we have to remove it

02:19Bees are my passion

02:20And I did my PhD on honeybee colony losis

02:23And we identify why the bees are dying

02:25And it's very complex

02:26And when we are talking about the pollution

02:28When we are talking about the biodiversity

02:30We realize it's not only the bees

02:32It's also the humans

02:33It's also for us

02:34And if we are not doing something

02:3650% of all the species all around the world will have disappeared by 2050

02:52We have this chance to develop an innovation

02:54And that's the best solution

02:56My hope for the future is to have a real positive impact for the environment

03:01But also for the next generation

03:03And for sure for the bees

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