Wild Service Festival: SCRAP TALKS: Dr Amy-Jane Beer – Wild Service – Why Nature Needs You.
In this SCRAP TALK Dr Beer will explore the concept and ethos of Wild Service, a Right to Roam call to action outlined in the 2024 book of the same name, co-authored by 13 diverse voices from the campaign and its associates.
Dr Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist, naturalist, writer, science editor and campaigner. She is a Country Diarist and reviewer of books for The Guardian, a columnist for British Wildlife and Waterlife magazine, and has authored several dozen books on wildlife and natural history.
Her first book of narrative non-fiction, The Flow: rivers water and wildness won the 2023 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. She is President of the national park society Friends of the Dales, and a member of the core organising team at Right to Roam, campaigning for greater access to nature for everyone, where she leads on creative direction and liaison with the Access Friendly Farmers and Landowners working group, AFFLO.
In this talk, Wild Service – Why Nature Needs You – Dr Beer will explore the concept and ethos of Wild Service, a Right to Roam call to action outlined in the extraordinary 2024 book of the same name, co-authored by 13 diverse voices from the campaign and its associates. Drawing on lived experience, deep research and indigenous wisdom, Wild Service focusses on broad themes of reciprocity, reconnection, community, healing and homage and calls for a deep and wide culture shift in our relationship with more than human nature and each other. Alongside these revelatory ideas, inspiring examples of Wild Service in Action evidence the power of grassroots guardianship, and anecdotes on the Architecture of Belonging remind us that the land is ours to love and care for.
Tickets are £5 and can be bought from Eventbrite here.
This event is part of the Wild Service Festival, a combination of free and paid events encompassing visual poetry, music, spoken word, talks, and workshops, the Wild Service Festival celebrates the creative and practical ways we can simultaneously reconnect with and become better guardians of nature, while improving our well-being through the power of participation.
Britain ranks last in Europe on biodiversity, wellbeing, and nature connectedness. Nature is suffering, and so are we. ‘Wild Service’ – the visionary concept and book crafted by the Right to Roam campaign – argues that humanity’s loss and nature’s need are two sides of the same story. It calls for mass reconnection to the land and a commitment to its restoration.
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