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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · 13d

Ha! He wouldn’t dare 😁

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · 20d

Oh that’s an early edition… Nick Hayes’ artwork looking very fine! so glad you enjoyed Joe, thank you 🙏

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · 25d

Warm your cockles on this by @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social . A glimpse of something so reasonable and so possible, because this is how people really are when they give each other a chance: mutual respect and common interest for and with each other & the land. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Country diary: Searching for sanctuary, we find something else entirely | Eben Muse

Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire: The scourge of rural litter is enough to bring anyone together, even a farmer and us, trying to camp for the night in his field

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · 27d

A win that speaks volumes. Huge congratulations to the dear, brilliant and indefatigable Shrub, an absolute warrior for nature.

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 28d

Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing!

This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…

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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · 28d

The WINNER of the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing...

The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)

#WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Swimmers and river lovers of Yorkshire! Rave On for the Avon is coming to York THIS THURSDAY 🏊🏻‍♀️💦💙

Please share…

www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

@righttoroam.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Aug 26

This prize draw is generously supported by some of the cream of British nature writing.

A fiver to enter might win you books, art and other goodies.
That’s the ‘maybe’… the ‘definitely’ is that it will support our work to connect everyone in England and Wales with their nearby nature.

Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · Aug 26

Want to support the campaign for a real Right to Roam across England & Wales, all while having a chance to win a bundle of beautiful nature bundles?

Take part in our Prize Draw which closes at the end of the week!

Supported by @foldedorset.bsky.social

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/right-to-r...

Right to Roam: 10 Nature Inspired Prize Bundles

Help us fuel our campaign to secure a full right to roam in England to give people better access to nature.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · Aug 1

We had a brilliant time @deershed.bsky.social
in the Buckendz tent! Huge thanks to all who joined us for inspiring author events - including the amazing @righttoroam.bsky.social team with @amyjanebeer.bsky.social - Wainwright Prize winner and wild writing wonder
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#IndieBookshop #RightToRoam

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · Jul 24

Feeling a bit real now … lovely to have quotes like these from early readers … thank you @amyjanebeer.bsky.social #booksky

Cover of my new book Ghosts of the Farm, out Sept 30th, with a lovely quote from Amy-Jane Beer.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Jul 20

Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership now👇

‘Outwitted’: have water companies managed to sidestep Labour’s bonus ban?

Concerns loophole in 2025 act allows payouts at firms that repeatedly pollute England’s waterways with sewage

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 20

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 20

I know the booking link looks like it’s for Norwich but click through and you’ll see the York showing is there.

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 20

The film follows the activist swimmers of the Bristol Avon, campaigning for their right to swim and the right of their river to flow free and clean. An utter joy, for swimmers and non swimmers alike. Please share with your York area pals. 👆🏻🏊🏻‍♀️💦💙
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

Rave on for the Avon review – Bristol wild swimmers lead a joyful protest campaign

Lovely documentary records the battle to protect a stretch of the polluted river and the beautiful bathing site it is defending

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 20

Delighted to have a part in bringing the brilliant #RaveOnForTheAvon to York City Screen & to be part of Q&A panel with director Charlotte Sawyer @yorkswildlife.bsky.social CEO @rachaelbice.bsky.social and swim guide Sarah Banks. Showing 4 Sept, book now!

www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

Green Screen: Rave On For The Avon + Live Panel | Showtimes and Tickets

Norwich - Thursday 17th July + Live panel with The Rivers Trust and River Waveney Trust Host: Martha Meek - River Waveney Trust Samantha Wood & Peter Smith  - Cow Towe...

www.picturehouses.com

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 19

Honestly. Seems he’s one of the few bearers of light in that benighted place.

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 18

It is good news Chris. Thank you so much for your steadfast commitment.

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 17

Your annual reminder to reconsider ‘weeds’. The teasel, knapweed, ragwort, yarrow, vipers bugloss, wild marjoram burdock and valerian in my garden are all self-introduced and self-seeded and they are indisputably what make it hum.

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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · Jul 15

Reminder that, 10 years ago, Sheffield Council signed a PFI contract which led to the felling of thousands of mature street trees - mainly to save the contractor a few quid. It then took out injunctions against local residents protesting the felling and used arcane anti-union laws to lock them up.

Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, sentenced for act of criminal damage that sparked widespread sadness and anger

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 15

Ummm. Imagine such sentences for raptor persecution on a shooting estate, or for river pollution, habitat destruction or felling enacted by a farmer, large landowner, private company, council contractor or developer? What could POSSIBLY be the diffence I wonder? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, sentenced for act of criminal damage that sparked widespread sadness and anger

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Well we’d better go for a splosh sometime then 🙂

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Really? I’m less than a mile away!

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Dear Derwent. Getting in here most days at the moment and it’s a balm. The heat, the horror, the hype, the helterskelter hassle of 2025 recede for just a few precious, slow minutes when it’s just me and the reflections, the martins and the water lilies.

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

I remember! Hope you’re having a fabulous weekend Nic xx

Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jul 2

Missed this yesterday, sharing so you don’t. The grotesque waste and ecological carnage of intensive pheasant stocking brilliantly described by @nicolawriting.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | The Guardian

Country diary: Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | Nicola Chester

North Wessex Downs, Hampshire: Predators are increasingly drawn by the shooting-season escapees. But, miserably, other ground-nesting birds and their eggs are being taken, too

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jun 28

Absolutely superb from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the real threat to rural life (spoiler, it *really* isn’t Right to Roam). Sharing this with heartfelt sympathy for the residents Littlebredy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot

This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · Jun 26

Custodians of the land, right?

RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Jun 26

The illegal killing of Hen Harriers has hit a devastating new high. ⚠️

A new RSPB report reveals 102 incidents in just five years - with the majority on, or near, grouse moors.

A thread…

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