Co-director of Right to Roam, @jon-moses.bsky.social, has authored its launch report: The Welsh Way to Wild
1) Read the report and sign up to the mailing list at: rewildingalliance.cymru
2) Give the alliance a follow: @cynghrairalwylltio.cymru
It’s live! The @cynghrairalwylltio.cymru has launched and Right to Roam are proud to be one of the core organisations supporting its call for a wilder Wales.
We’ll be advocating a vision of rewilding which opens access, builds community, and drives ecological recovery from below.
Very happy to be representing @righttoroam.bsky.social as a member of this new rewilding alliance, and to have authored its launch report: The Welsh Way to Wild.
1) Read the report and sign up to the mailing list at: rewildingalliance.cymru
2) Give the alliance a follow: @cynghrairalwylltio.cymru
Welcome to the Welsh Rewilding Alliance 🌱
We’re building the power and momentum needed to deliver rewilding in Wales, by Wales, for Wales.
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The government must know this line is nonsense. Yet still keep repeating it.
Nine river walks & three forests won't change the postcode lottery on access to nature. Even where these initiatives are happening they're so far only upgrading the existing infrastructure, not creating new access at all.
A selection of 'Private property - keep out' signs seen on a 5km walk along the River Dart near Buckfast, Dartmoor.
A selection of 'Private', 'No entry' and 'No trespassing' signs seen on a 5km walk along the River Dart near Buckfast, Dartmoor.
Today 25 of us went trespassing along the River Dart near Buckfast. In just 5km we walked through woodlands and along riverbanks owned by 4 different landowners who don't want the public on their land (including the monks at Buckfast Abbey). It's time for a right to roam! @righttoroam.bsky.social
"The quiet revolution that both books will further charge is of potentially planet-changing importance."
Super-proud of this joint review of my book The Lie of the Land and @righttoroam.bsky.social's Wild Service, in the Journal of Historical Geography (£):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We absolutely want to address this issue; we love dogs, but a right to roam would not automatically extend to them. We recommend reading our detailed policy proposals addressing the challenges of England’s rising dog population. drive.google.com/file/d/1uJ8I...
For more on the architecture of belonging, see WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You.
A publication from the Right to Roam campaign. m.cmpgn.page/kqCFTs
Following the Police, Crime and Sentencing Act words like ‘intent to reside’ have become criminalised.
Wild camping remains unlawful across nearly all of Wales and England.
The most normal of things have been rebranded as sins.
Because a den is a counter-claim to ownership; an incitement to belong.
Every creature needs sanctuary. And den-making brings us into affinity with our most creaturely instincts.
Which is exactly what the law of the land cannot abide.
Building a den is the most natural thing in the world.
Yet today it has become guerilla architecture; a spooky reminder that evolutionary instinct and modern property law rarely make good den-fellows.
Landowners admonish. Councils tear them down. In some bizarre cases, police are called.
A den is a childish statement of belonging, but let’s not mistake childish for trivial. Den making is the instinctive behaviour of homemaking: collecting materials from the world around, as you work out what can be borrowed, salvaged and adapted into shelter. Nearly everyone has built a den.
OUR LAND
A film about the Right to Roam campaign.
Preview screenings from March - April.
Cinemas nationwide from May.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-...
Screenings: www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution...
There will be preview screenings in cinemas across the country from early March to early May, followed by a national release. With the help of our local group network, we’ll be attending as many screenings as possible for post-film Q&As. Tickets here: www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution...
This spring sees the release of a documentary about the fight to defend and extend access to nature in England and Wales. OUR LAND, directed by Orban Wallace and shot by Gallivant Film, follows the Right to Roam campaign as we trespass estates and challenge removal of rights on Dartmoor and beyond.
We are delighted to be part of this exhibition at
@themerl.bsky.social, with the fight for Dartmoor's right to Wild Camp and the resurection of Old Crockern. On 14th February - 24th of May, not one to miss!
We're also marking the launch of Radical Rural, a gallery trail championing many more voices who champion and care for rural England today. From summoning the folk spirits of England's woods and tors, to meticulously mapping the data of who really owns England.
merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad...
This May sees the release of Our Land - a feature length documentary film about the Right to Roam campaign, directed by Orban Wallace.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-...
Exciting news: this May sees the national release of OUR LAND.
A beautiful documentary feature film about the @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign, directed by Orban Wallace.
Trailer here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-...
For more on the architecture of belonging, see WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You.
A publication from the Right to Roam campaign. m.cmpgn.page/kqCFTs
The rope swing is our most common example of the commons.
A raucous, everyday insult to the claims that belonging equates to ownership.
A ‘common lore’ superseding the fiction of ‘property law’.
Once a rope swing becomes established it becomes a local theatre of experience. A place where relationships play out, where memories are forged.
It is the hearth of an invisible, numberless community.
A fence signals artificial and exclusive ownership declared from without – “this is mine!”.
A rope swing signals organic and collective belonging declared from within – “this is everyone’s!”
Fences demarcate space. Rope swings create place.
You may never know its creator, but you will know it as an invitation: come over here, enjoy, play, stay a while.
Rope swings are inevitable: if nature and climate have conspired together to create a tree whose bows offer the perfect height for a swing, in a location looking over a river or steep slope, at some point in time one will appear.
Good web conference on recreational disturbance issues in the outdoors today. Lots of common ground, still some philosophical gulfs to bridge.
A few takeaways.
-the reason many of our protected SSSIs exist is *because* the land was originally protected for access. That's why the two often overlap.
For more on the architecture of belonging, see WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You. A publication from the Right to Roam campaign. m.cmpgn.page/kqCFTs
Whether or not you believe in the clootie’s healing power, these rituals help us make sense of sorrow.
By tending the spring and its guarding trees, we weave nature into our story.
Drawing strength from past pain, to be witnessed and held by unknown ancestors in a place of hope and fortune.
Clootie trees mirror modernity: old customs struggling to make sense in a modern world.
Should we abandon them and consign clootie trees to history?
We don’t think so. We celebrate the Friends of the Clootie Well, who care for the trees sensitively and bring their stories back to life.
