Dr. Ed Spevak has dedicated the last 46 years of his career to the conservation of invertebrates and vertebrates working in zoos and aquariums as a zoo curator and small population biologist. Ed is the Curator of Invertebrates at the Saint Louis Zoo and is Director of Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute Center for Native Pollinator Conservation (CNPC). Ed and the Saint Louis Zoo helped to establish the IUCN SSC Bumble Bee Specialist Group (now the Wild Bee Specialist Group). Ed and the Zoo also helped establish the Honey Bee Health Coalition, Farmers for Monarchs and Missourians for Monarchs Collaborative. Ed, through the CNPC, has developed a program called Native Foods, Native Peoples, Native Pollinators focused on food security, food sovereignty and pollinator conservation with Native American Reservations and Communities. Through this program Ed has worked with Tribes and Nations from Montana to Oklahoma assisting them with food production, education/outreach on pollinators, biodiversity and agriculture and supporting habitat restoration for pollinators and other wildlife. Ed is also Co-Leader of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) North American Bison program working with Indigenous groups, (e.g., Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council, International Buffalo Relations Institute, INDIGENOUSLED and Tanka Fund), conservation organizations and other zoos to rematriate bison populations for eco-cultural restoration.