Book review – Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You – Edited by Nick Hayes and Jon Moses

Packed with enchanting essays about people’s personal relationships with nature. Several brought a tear to my eye.

It looks at why many people have lost the deep connection with the natural world that was once taken for granted.
Another theme is Right to Roam. Unlike in Germany or Scotland, citizens in England and the US are unable to walk where they wish without trespassing.

#RighttoRoam
#WildService

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TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!

🌒Tues Nov 5, 18:30 🌓 (London UK)
with #HarryJenkinson
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM

'Wild Service--the Human Right to Roam'

LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW

ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Harry Jenkinson will present the concept of Wild Service: a philosophy of reciprocity with our fellow species, made possible through increased human access to nature.

Humans are a nomadic species. For over 95% of our history, we have lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers, with nomadism central to understandings of ecological balance. But when we are politically and culturally restricted from nature, we become unable to take care of it. The Right to Roam movement, to which Harry belongs, calls for public access to the English countryside, 92% of which is inaccessible.

Looking at mobility and ecological reciprocity among Indigenous peoples today, Harry will discuss inspirations for Wild Service and draw upon his ethnographic work among Indigenous peoples in the Arctic.

Wild Service offers a renewal of relationships, where we recognise humanity as part of, rather than separate from nature.

Harry will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW.
Please arrive by 6:30pm before doors close. Or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
@right_2roam

#WildService #nomadism #huntergatherers #Indigenous #cosmology #RightToRoam