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Wild Service

Why Nature Needs You

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Wild Service

By: Nick Hayes
Narrated by: Nadia Shaikh
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 Bloomsbury presents Wild Service by Nick Hayes and Jon Moses, read by Nadia Shaikh.

‘Powerful . . . Wild Service is a call to action that might just be the founding text for a new environmentalism’ Patrick Barkham, Guardian
‘A reckoning with our past and a vision for a new ecological future’ Amy-Jane Beer
‘Seeks to undo the damage of exclusionary ownership through the transformative power of belonging’ Guy Shrubsole

In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European countries on three factors: biodiversity, wellbeing, and nature connectedness. Britain came last in each category. The findings are clear: we are suffering, and nature is too.

Enter ‘Wild Service’ – a visionary concept crafted by the pioneers of the Right to Roam campaign, which argues that humanity’s loss and nature’s need are two sides of the same story. Blending science, nature writing and indigenous philosophy, this groundbreaking book calls for mass reconnection to the land and a commitment to its restoration.

In Wild Service we meet Britain’s new nature defenders: an anarchic cast of guerilla guardians who neither own the places they protect, nor the permission to restore them. Still, they’re doing it anyway. This book is a celebration of their spirit and a call for you to join. So, whether you live in the countryside or the city, want to protect your local river or save our native flora, this is your invitation to rediscover the power in participation – the sacred in your service.©2024 Nick Hayes (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Gardening & Horticulture Personal Development Philosophy Society Sustainable & Green Living

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each chapter offers a different perspective and voice on connecting to nature. very engaging, fast paced and packed full of interesting references, facts and concepts. I am going to get the book and bookmark the topics and ideas that resonate most.

a call to actionand so many ways to reconnect with the natural world

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The narrator is brilliant, a breath of fresh air, and the essays are constantly interesting, challenging and inspiring

loved this

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I really loved the mix of story and facts. It gave me a feeling of hope in the midst of the extreme loss of connection to the land. A cry for systematic change.

a passion for change

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this is less a coherent manifesto and more a polyphonic work of propositions and exemplars on the idea of wild service. Although there are elements I disagreed with I am hugely glad I read it. For my part the best pieces, such as the bothy chapter, describe a genuine anarchism people organizing themselves to care for nature outside of ownership or hierarchy. The worst open wild service up to exploitation, a return to feudalism or by proffering it as a cure for health or poverty risk a linking to benefits or NHS care that could make it indentured labour. Ultimately I'd like to see the movement evolve like right to roam, joyful anarchic and politically engaged. sorry Nick Hayes, kids TV and Gogmagog aren't going to do this for us.

Engaging read

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