Off to London to meet my fellow #WildService authors after we spent an emotional night around a fire basket in a wood. Immensely proud to be among them. There are authors you know, & authors you may not yet know, that will move you & blow your socks off. This is more than a book.

Show gratitude, give service. I genuinely think #WildService as defined by Right to Roam's brilliant new book of essays is the basis for new ecological thinking & being in Britain. I've done my best in limited news story form to explain, but read the book! theguardian.com/environment/20…

Happy St Georges day! Let an England flag illegally dumped in ancient bluebell woodland remind us of the madness of professing to love our country whilst allowing its rivers to be polluted with sewage, its ancient trees to be felled & its precious landscapes littered with plastic

*nerdy lawyer question klaxon*

One of the key reforms of ‘Rights of Nature’ is giving Nature legal personality. But where is the law stating who and what exactly has legal personality (ie the right to bring legal action in its name, hold property, make contracts etc) contained?

The moment we’ve all been waiting for. Trudi Warner exits the Royal Court of Justice with her head held high - she is innocent of any wrongdoing.

“Her placard simply summarised the principle of jury equity. Her conduct was consistent with information sharing.“ - Mr Justice Saini

🧵Yes, that’s right! The budget for cleaning up the illegal landfill waste to #rescuehoadswood is £10 million. 😲

c£3m of this is landfill tax (pocketed by the criminals) and VAT is c£1m. This cost doesn’t include the value of irreplaceable ancient woodland! 💔🌳🦌🦋🐦 (1/6)

Another article, this time by John Harris, which draws together disparate, but intimately related threads: access to land, nature deprivation & mental health, ecological crises, Rights of Nature, direction action for nature, guardianship of nature etc

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Lovely short film by JO SYZ on our knife edge campaign to try to save the Oakfield Plane tree. Woodland Trust🌳 BBC London Ham&High Bristol Tree Forum 🍃💚🍃 Save Sheffield Trees STRAWPlymouth Haringey Council Mike Hakata Peray Ahmet Paul Powlesland Trees for Streets Catherine West MP

Rights of Nature in Ireland is gathering steam, with a protest outside the Dail today in advance of a debate about the environment committee’s report that proposes adding such rights to the Irish Constitution & questions to the Taoiseach about whether he supports a RoN referendum

The breadth, vision & creativity of policy proposals in Ministry of Imagination Manifesto, collated by Rob Hopkins show the staidness & paucity of offerings by most mainstream political parties. Glad to have contributed policies on Rights of Nature.

robhopkins.net/2024/04/15/min…

Want to hear more about Right to Roam's new book, WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You?

Join me, nickhayesillustration & Nadia Shaikh at 6.30pm TONIGHT for a live discussion and Q&A

Link to (free) tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/wild-service…