# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-goulson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:01:30.325Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-goulson"
name: "Dave Goulson"
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description: "Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex. Specializing in the ecology and conservation of insects, particularly bumblebees, Goulson is the author of several books, including Bumblebees: Their Behaviour and Ecology (2003), Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (2021), and more than 200 academic articles. In 2006 he founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity that aims to reverse the decline in the bumblebee population."
tagline: "British biologist, conservationist, and Professor of Biology"
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birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump