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The Kids are gonna Save the World.
It’s Earth Day 2021, and the launch of a momentous and important campaign is upon us. Want to stand up for nature in your local area? Be that change for those before and after you! I wrote this article for The Wildlife Trust Wales, to showcase the amazing work being done globally by young people…
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The power of story: my journey to becoming a storyteller.
A few weeks back, The Beaver Trust put out a call for guest writers, and received a monumental list of excellent creatives. I was honoured to be included in this lineup, and chose to explore one of my greater passions; Storytelling. Whilst it has not been released on The Beaver Trust website as of yet,…
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A Small Brown Elephant – My take on Diversity in Wildlife and how I got here.
A while back I approached the UK’s Youth Nature Network, A Focus On Nature (AFON), after I saw that they were searching for contributions to their blog that centred around people who perhaps had a different story to tell, for example People Of Colour, etc. When they stated they’d love a piece I decided to…
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A brown boy, a bowl of branflakes and a Bruce Springsteen puzzle.
You can’t start a fire. You can’t start a fire without a spark. This guns for hire. Even if we’re just dancing in the dark. Wanna change my clothes my hair my face. Man I aint getting nowhere. Wow. Very generic Dawood. So what if you start an article with superficially meaningful lyrics from a…
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Where am I. Why does Representation matter. Why am I even talking about this.
Why AM I talking about this? am I even supposed to be annoyed? Ive got a box of male priveledge anyway…sort of. That box will have to be opened again at some point, but maybe when you’ve got used to my spewing rhetoric we can get into it. And it’s not like I’ve been specifically…
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Flight of a Pixie
And she made it. This is the long awaited sequel to my last post whereupon I decided to keep a shiny, brown, finely tapered pupae found in the garden hidden beneath a fine coating of soil and transfer it to yet another shallow depth of soil but this time in a tank on my desk.…
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Pixies, Sprites and Moths…
It’s a blistering almost-summers day, dappled patterns playing across the lawn, as sunlight escapes through the gaps in the leaves of the trees bordering the garden. A mistlethrush, his mellow spotted chest flitting in and out of view, calls out cheerfully into the refreshing breeze, the wind playfully snatching at his verbose chatter. I’m sat…
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30DaysWild – a week of pure joy
A few days ago I was asked by the BBOWT (Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust) to write a guest post on a week of my activities for 30DaysWild, here it is on their site: http://www.bbowt.org.uk/blog/bbowtblog/2016/06/15/taking-break-exams-week-pure-joy, I hope you enjoy it and may I remind you to take this opportunity to go out and have…
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Revival of the Wye
This particular post is not the sort I have blogged about before, it is about an organisation that I am very much involved in at the moment; this brilliant – if I do say so myself – organisation is known as Revive the Wye; if you live locally then you’ll know something of what that…
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For the love of Birding – guest post
A few weeks ago I was asked to write a post on my experiences in the birding world by none other than fantastic birder, twitcher and all round naturalist Elliot Montieth. Now you may know Elliot from his absolutely brilliant blog – https://elliotsbirdingdiaries.wordpress.com – this blog was part of what inspired me to write my…
Jasmine Isa Qureshi 