Dr Amy-Jane Beer
@amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Biologist, naturalist, writer, campaigner at Right to Roam; Country Diarist at The Guardian; Wainwright Prize winning author of The Flow WIP: Old Nows Agent: Jane Turnbull jane.turnbull@btinternet.com
There are so many reasons to despise the industrial scale of pheasant shooting. This list is just devastating.
Jon Moses@jon-moses.bsky.social · 5h agoThis motorcyclist is described as being "incredibly unlucky" after he died when a pheasant flew into him. In fact, it seems relatively common. There's were two other (non-fatal) cases reported just this year and have been many more in recent years.
Such an honour to be back on the #wainwrightprize shortlist with A River Running Through You. A dream project from the start, as river awareness & guardianship gather pace, the youngest generation are already way ahead of us. This is for them 🩵 Congrats to ALL the other shortlistees 😊🥰xx
Today’s @theguardian.com Country Diary. Hares, strange and stoic in the sweaty stillness of this sweltering July. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: Dark against the gold wheat stubble, the hares sit tall like a hieroglyph | Amy-Jane Beer
North Yorkshire: It’s been a remarkable breeding season for these gorgeous creatures with ripped physiques and all-seeing eyes
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Taking A River Running Through You to Edinburgh this morning to read and explore with youngsters at the fantastically named Wild Fungarium— a specialist nature bookshop. From 10 am! 🍄😊💚📚
Should the access movement be less political? Is it all about paths instead of wider rights? In our first substack, co-director @jon-moses.bsky.social responds to comments from the author and geographer, Nicholas Crane, about the right to roam campaign. righttoroam.substack.com/p/should-the...
Should the access movement be less political?
a response to common criticisms of the right to roam campaign
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Good morning all. I’ve joined Substack, and am opening with a chapter length piece over which I have literally sweated: John Clare, Wild Service, and becoming a fly-tipper. Please visit, & subscribe! substack.com/@amyjanebeer...
A desolate mystery at the shepherd’s bridge
Land, exclusion, refuge, Wild Service and impenetrable local council bureaucracy in the home of the peasant poet John Clare: can we restore collective responsibility and care to rural England?
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This is surely the finest literary account of fly-tipping ever written, from one of England's strangest, most hardy butterflies. @amyjanebeer.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/amyjaneb...
A desolate mystery at the shepherd’s bridge
Land, exclusion, refuge, Wild Service and impenetrable local council bureaucracy in the home of the peasant poet John Clare: can we restore collective responsibility and care to rural England?
open.substack.com
Hey ecologist friends. Where can I source spare parts for a Longworth trap?
Yesterday I/Jenny Greenteeth joined a panel at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social with Prof John Lawton, @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social, Dr Marie Taylor of @yorkdalesrt.bsky.social and Adam Ashman of @yorkshirewater.bsky.social Spooked a few children on the way in, oops. 🧙🐸🦠🧌
@feargalsharkey.bsky.social in typically barnstorming form yesterday at @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social In response to an audience question about what success looks like for water quality improvement he said 'it looks like when anyone can go and swim in their nearest bit of river'… 1/3
The first white-tailed eagle to fledge in Dorset for more than 240 years has gone missing on the North York Moors “The disappearance is being treated as suspicious” “Birds of prey regularly go missing in areas associated with game shooting” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rare white-tailed eagle disappearance investigated by police
The satellite-tagged bird, part of a breeding programme, lost contact in the North York Moors.
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Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics
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What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔
A Country Diary today from Poland’s Biebrza Marshes… a taste of the wetscapes we lost but could have again… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: A jaw-dropping bounty of wildlife – and a reminder of what Britain has lost | Amy-Jane Beer
Biebrza marshes, Poland: Biebrza marshes, Poland: It’s not just the abundance of elks, orchids and eagles that sets the mind racing, it’s the wild interactions between the ‘exotic’ and the familiar
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I nearly fell off my chair when I found out that Gibraltar HAS NEVER HAD A SEWAGE PLANT and therefore ALL ITS RAW, UNTREATED SEWAGE (from a mere 40,000 people and their businesses) is dumped straight into the MEDITERRANEAN Sea. Great work, guys. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean
Wastewater from nearly 40,000 people and businesses pumped straight into sea as territory still has no treatment plant
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Hi all. I've written another book. This one is for children, it's called A River Running Through You, and it publishes on 14th May. It's been such a joy to reinterpret some of the insights I've gleaned in recent years thinking with and about rivers this way. 🧵
So looking forward to this first event for my new children’s picture book with Elin Manon, with the brilliant @lucylapwing.bsky.social @sarahbanks21.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986354935...
So honoured to have the absolute legend that is @maryannochota.bsky.social choose #TheFlow as her pick on Radio 4 A Good Read today. Available to listen at leisure here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A Good Read - Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota - BBC Sounds
More favourite books with Harriett Gilbert and guests.
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And here's the full Isle of Sh*te picture. Total sewage spills last year. Check out the interactive map here: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
By no means the end of the astonishing inequity in English land ownership, but a big old step change in transparency (and let’s hope, accountability) and the toppling of a significant obstacle to nature protection and restoration. Simply incredible work by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 5mo agoVICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Coming to this late, but do have a watery listen to @jenratcliffe.bsky.social and @amyjanebeer.bsky.social...
Jen Ratcliffe@jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 5mo agoHappy #WorldWildlifeDay 🌊 Perhaps a day to listen about caring for our rivers? Amazing opening to the Water Book Club with @amyjanebeer.bsky.social on Thursday evening Watch the full conversation here: jenratcliffe.substack.com/p/water-book... #NatureWriting #OurWater #UKCanals #Waterways
Lovely thoughts on daring to love what can be lost by @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hughwarw...
‘Grow your heart to the size of the world.’
It is a risky business, falling in love ...
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The lives and condition of our waterways are so intimately connected with our own, this conversation could go almost anywhere. Live chat this evening on writing rivers… and acting for them. Free to join open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: Water Book Club Live with Dr Amy Jane Beer & Jen Ratcliffe
Starting Feb 26 at 2:00 PM EST
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You know how it feels like some places are just special? Wold Newton is one. Marked by a very large chalk spring feeding the ever mysterious Gypsy Race, which runs on flanked by an incredible abundance of ancient monuments.
Join us next Thursday for a conversation about all things fluvial: rivers, hydrology, ecology, mythology, adventure, literature, restoration, responsibility… #rivers #theflow #waterbookclub
Jen Ratcliffe@jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 6mo agoDelighted to share the wonderful @amyjanebeer.bsky.social will join us for a live Q&A, focused on her award winning book The Flow - for our first Water Book Club! This is currently set for February 26th at 7pm 🌊 RSVP here: calendarlink.com/event/Yv6nE [FREE Event] #NatureWriting #UKCanals #Water
Delighted to share the wonderful @amyjanebeer.bsky.social will join us for a live Q&A, focused on her award winning book The Flow - for our first Water Book Club! This is currently set for February 26th at 7pm 🌊 RSVP here: calendarlink.com/event/Yv6nE [FREE Event] #NatureWriting #UKCanals #Water
Bishopthorpe Parish Council want to sell a small wildlife oasis hosting rare wildflowers like Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem to a developer. This field belongs to the people of Bish who cherish its wildlife. Please sign this petition to stop them doing this. Thanks 😊 c.org/syGKBRcGBY
Hello all. As those of you who also follow me on Instagram may know, A few days before Christmas we lost my precious sister to a savagely aggressive cancer, which took her in the space of month. Nic was the best and kindest of people. Having her as my little sister was an extraordinary blessing.
A very welcome addition to the Country Diary stable. Expect perspectives long in time and space, fantastic natural knowledge and absolute top tier wordsmithery from @drmjwarren.bsky.social 💚
Michael J. Warren@drmjwarren.bsky.social · 7mo agoMy first @theguardian.com Country Diary today, in the footsteps of many incredible writers, incl. @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social @themarshtit.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @richardsmyth.bsky.social @derekniemann.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
