Nazir a sensitive nature guide with a remarkable ability to track bees and a deep respect and reverence for wild bees who works for De Hoop Collective in De Hoop Nature Reserve and is being trained by Ujubee to be the first wild bee guide in the world.
Charles Sivewright, father of Sally Sivewright, a friend of Jenny’s is an Accountant and Taxation Practitioner by profession. He attended all of Jenny’s talks on wild bees and when his daughter realized Jenny needed to formalize Ujubee as a nonprofit organization she suggested her Dad who has worked with many nonprofit community support organizations including her own. Charles was so keen to help he offered his services pro bono.
Tara Kilichand has decades of experience working with nonprofit conservation organizations throughout Africa and is currently Head of Strategic Communications & Fundraising for The Wilderness Project
After hearing Jenny give a talk, she was so inspired by what she had learned and Jenny’s authenticity that she became determined to produce a film to share this remarkable conservation story.
Tara Kilichand encouraged her friend, Cathy, to go hear a talk by Jenny of Ujubee. After hearing Jenny speak, Cathy recognized that Jenny was a passionate and dedicated small scale visionary, working outside of conventional systems and often at odds with dominant academic and industrial systems to protect wild bees in a way never before undertaken. Cathy understood Jenny’s need for independence from strings attached funding sources as essential to the integrity of her research and recognized her unique desire to adhere to this approach as arising from her reverence and respect for wild bees and dedication to right relationship with them.
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