Join Kate Wilson and I discussing her incredible book Disclosure. Undercover police spied on our private lives for years and tricked her into a relationship that left lasting scars. Our crimes? Speaking up for wild spaces and about climate change. #spycops www.fatsoma.com/e/mwg165fu/d...

My heart beats fast today. What hope left for our wildlife and wild spaces if this Bill becomes an Act without amendments? 30 years ago, as a young eco-activist, a lawyer called Starmer represented us. His betrayal now is unforgivable.

26 years ago, I visited the old growth forests these trees come from. I was the guest of a First Nations people, supporting their anti-logging campaigns. And still it goes on. #axedrax

100% agree with @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social. Low level of literacy and low level of willingness to learn or listen. The notion that nature can jog on somewhere else, or thrive in just-planted woods is either stupidity or wilful fantasy and lies. #planningandinfrastructurebill

“Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing, nothing,” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is deeply disappointing from Starmer. The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯 How embarrassing for the UK. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The dark months are back and I can walk at night without having to stay up late. Here's another night walk on my Substack, featuring Dolly and little Daisy her foal. #commonland #gypsyponies commonplace92.substack.com/p/night-walk-2

I am living in such fear of what the Planning & Infrastructure Bill will mean if passes unamended into law. How then to speak for old trees, the bats who encircle it at night or the birds that live in this hedge? www.wildlifetrusts.org/all-you-need...

Film showing in Norwich on Nov 19th - trailer is sobering, but I am looking forward to being on panel afterwards, weaving threads of ecological resistance and resilience and my one families stories of standing up to fascism in Europe. Come and join us!

Our Land, a new documentary, interrogates the connections between land, power and a sense of belonging following the Right to Roam movement in England and Wales. It captures the tension between public campaigners fighting for greater access to nature and landowners.

The Fens are autumn browns and greys today. A warm breeze rattling in the reeds. Never thought I would love these flatlands, but now I am drawn to them as winter approaches.

Myddfai Common in autumn sun, an old track vanished beneath gorse, only the lichen covered signpost still shows the way. Local herbalists once gathered their plants here, their lore handed down from a faery. The golden light and disappearing path makes all this believable. #commonland

Finally set up Substack. My first post is a night walk on the common land where I live, the ghosts that followed me and rosemary burned for remembrance. commonplace92.substack.com/p/night-walk...

In case you missed the announcement in our newsletter, we are open for non-fiction submissions, both full-length and flash, until the end of October. You can read our submission guidelines and submit via hinterlandnonfiction.submittable.com Subscribers can submit for free as usual, any time!

Do you think this planning bill is worth it? This government is selling out our nature and wildlife to benefit wealthy property developers. We were promised change with Labour. Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...

Local action for nature works, as @felbecktrust.bsky.social prove every day!

Niki Bowers, contemporary UK printmaker based in Norfolk #WomensArt

Gold spills across the quiet sand. Footprints fade where sea meets land. Waves whisper tales the sea once knew. Of sunlit hearts and skies of blue. The lighthouse hums and the gulls all sing. A walk and a sigh is a timeless thing.

Christmas bargain £13.59 (with free p&p) for 'Broadland. Shaping Marsh and Fen' by Tom Williamson & Alison Yardy (with ecology @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social and geology @timholtwilson.bsky.social). 400 pages of landscape history. Go www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book... @broadsnationalpark.bsky.social

It’s our final round of Nature or No Nature! Keir Starmer, you’re up again. Nature in the UK will thrive or fail based on your government's decisions. This huge responsibility lays with you and it cannot be ignored. So, our final question to you:

Train journey opportunity to catch up on reading. Peter Marren's books always raise a smile for me...elegant mix of science and wit. An underrated nature writer imho.

Finally picked up my Mum's old gramophone today. Still works! If we run out of electricity, the party is at mine, listening to Bing Crosby.

The Planning & Infrastructure Bill is being voted on today⏰ Don't let Parliament strip nature protections from our National Parks ⚠️ Last call to write to your MP as they vote on the Planning Bill www.cnp.org.uk/support/camp...

Drying petals for rose petal tea. I stopped buying herb teas years ago as the price is so high, and most of the ingredients seem to grow in my garden. I will add lime flowers to these for a restful, soothing drink.

Love tribute to the wonderful Jamie, one of those warm people you felt was a friend as soon as you met him. He will be so missed.

Amazing to be here at Mayflower Studios in Southampton for a book reading. After 30 years, Twyford Down still arouses strong emotions among many. #defendnature #twyforddown

Looking forward to reading this...right now solidarity and caring are necessary, radical acts. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Easy letter to use...please sign this letter to your MP and help stop this awful bill now!!

Important Guardian reporting on the planning bill - if unamended, this bill changes everything www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week. Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music. First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am. You can listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Keir Starmer is about to find out who the real blockers are after disastrously failing to provide an alternative to the far right, and leading an attack on those protecting the environment from inside Government archive.ph/2025.05.03-1...

England still feels like an adopted country for me. But then, there are blackcaps and blackbirds, song thrushes, and bulbous buttercups in the churchyard. And I realise I love England's gentle wildness. #churchyardsandwildlife #wilderchurchyards

Gypsy cob foal born on the common at 6am. Right outside my front door. I watched her wobbly first steps. I am calling her Annie, after my mum who saved this bit of land from the plough & made it a common. Without her, me, baby Annie & her mum would not have such a great place to be.

🌿☕ Good morning ☀️ What a disaster last year was for butterflies 🦋🦋🦋 I hope this year will be better @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #nomowmay www.bbc.com/news/article...

More support for natural regen please! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

All night vigil at the gates of Lakenheath air base. 'You looking at Facebook?' I was asked, as I tapped at my phone. No, I am writing a bird list...greenfinch and goldcrest in the gateside trees, a song thrush further away.

Staring contest with one of the local roe deer at Crow Green common. I lost, walking away before causing too much fear. Sound track of blackbird evensong and jackdaws returning to roost.

Brilliant breaking news: this year’s Goldman Prize—the Nobel of environmentalism—is won by activist Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari for her work defending the rights & life of Peru’s Marañon River. “For us, the river isn’t just a body of water. It’s fundamental.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...

BOOK OF THE MONTH: @luketurner.bsky.social‬ reviews Ken Worpole’s ‘Brightening from the East’ (@littletollerbooks.bsky.social), finding the richness of humanity brought to life in its pages www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/ken-...

Sunset yesterday, at the gates of USAF Lakenheath. Tea and good company in the face of weapons of mass destruction felt quietly, powerfully hopeful. And there blackbirds, singing their hearts out from inside the fences. #LakenheathAllianceforPeace. #Nonukes

I have a friend who is a witch that describes this moment in the year as: "When the wood stretches out as one to pull on its green gown." She is absolutely right. – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1982 , taking about her exhibition 'The Dressing of the Year'. #Spring

The lovely Rebecca Stonehill has kindly written about me for her latest blog. I feel undeserving of her generosity, but you might like this and her other posts. She makes me sound so interesting ☺ rebeccastonehill.com/guest-blog-w...

Some days make up for all the ones spent worrying about how to defend nature. Today was one, collecting DNA samples from adders, finding them in heath and scrub, seeing the beauty in her patterned scales and bright amber eyes. Reminds me why I do what I do. #norfolkwildlifetrust #naturalengland

New coal mine plans scrapped. In 2023, I took part in an occupation of this land, that line of houses were just behind my tent. Now there is a better ending for my blog post. helenbaczkowska.com/2024/12/01/t... #nonewcoal #keepitintheground

Never been a more important time to join your local Wildlife Trust and support action for nature 💚 🙌🏻 www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/craig-b...

Wotld going to hell in a handcart, but the Gypsy ponies on the common like a scratch every day.