THE FOREVER WARDROBE

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 every single 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