{"podcast":{"title":"The Nature Recovery Podcast","slug":"the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158","podcast_index_feed_id":6206158,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2135393.rss","website_url":"https://www.naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/7siz4dp6foy0qp3zwrl27k72rwqv?.jpg","author":"The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery","episode_count":38,"summary":"The Nature Recovery Podcast looks at some of the major challenges we face to global biodiversity. It takes a look at the various ways we are trying to halt the decline in biodiversity and the challenges inherent in these approaches. We also talk to a number of leading figures in the field of Nature Recovery and find out more about their work.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T16:18:50.121668+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158"},"episode":{"title":"Wasps! What are they good for? Absolutely Everything, (Say it again) with Seirian Sumner","slug":"wasps-what-are-they-good-for-absolutely-everything-say-it-again-with-seirian-sumner","published_at":"2025-12-10T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/wasps-what-are-they-good-for-absolutely-everything-say-it-again-with-seirian-sumner","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2135393/episodes/18322922-wasps-what-are-they-good-for-absolutely-everything-say-it-again-with-seirian-sumner.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2135393/episodes/18322922-wasps-what-are-they-good-for-absolutely-everything-say-it-again-with-seirian-sumner.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Nature Recovery Podcast, Stephen Thomas speaks with Professor Seirian Sumner, one of the world’s leading experts on social insects and a passionate advocate for rethinking our relationship with wasps. Seirian reveals how a reluctant PhD choice turned into a 25-year research career uncovering the remarkable societies, behaviours and ecological roles of these misunderstood insects. Together, they explore how social evolution unfolds inside a wasp colony, ...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Nature Recovery Podcast, Stephen Thomas speaks with Professor Seirian Sumner, one of the world’s leading experts o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2463,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/episodes/wasps-what-are-they-good-for-absolutely-everything-say-it-again-with-seirian-sumner/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-nature-recovery-podcast-6206158/wasps-what-are-they-good-for-absolutely-everything-say-it-again-with-seirian-sumner.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}