Dr Amy-Jane Beer
@amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Biologist, naturalist, writer, campaigner at Right to Roam; Country Diarist at The Guardian; Wainwright Prize winning author of The Flow
WIP: Old Nows
Agent: Jane Turnbull jane.turnbull@btinternet.com
WIP: Old Nows
Agent: Jane Turnbull jane.turnbull@btinternet.com
Popping back for something important…
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Popping back for something important…
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.
Reposted by Dr Amy-Jane Beer
An evening in celebration of the @righttoroam.bsky.social in Newcastle!
Music and talk at Cobalt Studios with Johnny Campbell, Lucy and Hazel, and @amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Who's in?
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Music and talk at Cobalt Studios with Johnny Campbell, Lucy and Hazel, and @amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Who's in?
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
An evening in celebration of the @righttoroam.bsky.social in Newcastle!
Music and talk at Cobalt Studios with Johnny Campbell, Lucy and Hazel, and @amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Who's in?
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
Music and talk at Cobalt Studios with Johnny Campbell, Lucy and Hazel, and @amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Who's in?
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
The moment has come again for me to leave socials for a while. Still a few events here and there and I’ll post the odd story when there’s work to share but otherwise I’m off here now to write, write, write for a few months, maybe more.
Be well, see you in time x
#OldNows
Be well, see you in time x
#OldNows
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The moment has come again for me to leave socials for a while. Still a few events here and there and I’ll post the odd story when there’s work to share but otherwise I’m off here now to write, write, write for a few months, maybe more.
Be well, see you in time x
#OldNows
Be well, see you in time x
#OldNows
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Freedom to roam? What's next? @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social looks back - and ahead - here gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/cam... Come and join us to hear more, Hebden Bridge Nov 29 @ramblers.org.uk @amyjanebeer.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Freedom to roam? What's next? @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social looks back - and ahead - here gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/cam... Come and join us to hear more, Hebden Bridge Nov 29 @ramblers.org.uk @amyjanebeer.bsky.social
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Our AGM on Saturday with an inspiring panel of speakers sharing their thoughts about how we could increase the reach and #inclusiveness of our charity's #campaigning work in the #YorkshireDalesNationalPark
Thank you to our President @amyjanebeer.bsky.social, Derek Twine and #MollySimmons
Thank you to our President @amyjanebeer.bsky.social, Derek Twine and #MollySimmons
October 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our AGM on Saturday with an inspiring panel of speakers sharing their thoughts about how we could increase the reach and #inclusiveness of our charity's #campaigning work in the #YorkshireDalesNationalPark
Thank you to our President @amyjanebeer.bsky.social, Derek Twine and #MollySimmons
Thank you to our President @amyjanebeer.bsky.social, Derek Twine and #MollySimmons
Warm your cockles on this by @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social . A glimpse of something so reasonable and so possible, because this is how people really are when they give each other a chance: mutual respect and common interest for and with each other & the land. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: Searching for sanctuary, we find something else entirely | Eben Muse
Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire: The scourge of rural litter is enough to bring anyone together, even a farmer and us, trying to camp for the night in his field
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Warm your cockles on this by @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social . A glimpse of something so reasonable and so possible, because this is how people really are when they give each other a chance: mutual respect and common interest for and with each other & the land. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A win that speaks volumes. Huge congratulations to the dear, brilliant and indefatigable Shrub, an absolute warrior for nature.
Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing!
This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…
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This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…
bsky.app/profile/wain...
The WINNER of the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing...
The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)
#WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)
#WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect
September 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A win that speaks volumes. Huge congratulations to the dear, brilliant and indefatigable Shrub, an absolute warrior for nature.
Swimmers and river lovers of Yorkshire! Rave On for the Avon is coming to York THIS THURSDAY 🏊🏻♀️💦💙
Please share…
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@righttoroam.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
Please share…
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@righttoroam.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Swimmers and river lovers of Yorkshire! Rave On for the Avon is coming to York THIS THURSDAY 🏊🏻♀️💦💙
Please share…
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@righttoroam.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
Please share…
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
@righttoroam.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
This prize draw is generously supported by some of the cream of British nature writing.
A fiver to enter might win you books, art and other goodies.
That’s the ‘maybe’… the ‘definitely’ is that it will support our work to connect everyone in England and Wales with their nearby nature.
A fiver to enter might win you books, art and other goodies.
That’s the ‘maybe’… the ‘definitely’ is that it will support our work to connect everyone in England and Wales with their nearby nature.
Want to support the campaign for a real Right to Roam across England & Wales, all while having a chance to win a bundle of beautiful nature bundles?
Take part in our Prize Draw which closes at the end of the week!
Supported by @foldedorset.bsky.social
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/right-to-r...
Take part in our Prize Draw which closes at the end of the week!
Supported by @foldedorset.bsky.social
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/right-to-r...
Right to Roam: 10 Nature Inspired Prize Bundles
Help us fuel our campaign to secure a full right to roam in England to give people better access to nature.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This prize draw is generously supported by some of the cream of British nature writing.
A fiver to enter might win you books, art and other goodies.
That’s the ‘maybe’… the ‘definitely’ is that it will support our work to connect everyone in England and Wales with their nearby nature.
A fiver to enter might win you books, art and other goodies.
That’s the ‘maybe’… the ‘definitely’ is that it will support our work to connect everyone in England and Wales with their nearby nature.
Reposted by Dr Amy-Jane Beer
We had a brilliant time @deershed.bsky.social
in the Buckendz tent! Huge thanks to all who joined us for inspiring author events - including the amazing @righttoroam.bsky.social team with @amyjanebeer.bsky.social - Wainwright Prize winner and wild writing wonder
🌿📚✨
#IndieBookshop #RightToRoam
in the Buckendz tent! Huge thanks to all who joined us for inspiring author events - including the amazing @righttoroam.bsky.social team with @amyjanebeer.bsky.social - Wainwright Prize winner and wild writing wonder
🌿📚✨
#IndieBookshop #RightToRoam
August 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We had a brilliant time @deershed.bsky.social
in the Buckendz tent! Huge thanks to all who joined us for inspiring author events - including the amazing @righttoroam.bsky.social team with @amyjanebeer.bsky.social - Wainwright Prize winner and wild writing wonder
🌿📚✨
#IndieBookshop #RightToRoam
in the Buckendz tent! Huge thanks to all who joined us for inspiring author events - including the amazing @righttoroam.bsky.social team with @amyjanebeer.bsky.social - Wainwright Prize winner and wild writing wonder
🌿📚✨
#IndieBookshop #RightToRoam
Reposted by Dr Amy-Jane Beer
Feeling a bit real now … lovely to have quotes like these from early readers … thank you @amyjanebeer.bsky.social #booksky
July 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Feeling a bit real now … lovely to have quotes like these from early readers … thank you @amyjanebeer.bsky.social #booksky
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Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership now👇
‘Outwitted’: have water companies managed to sidestep Labour’s bonus ban?
Concerns loophole in 2025 act allows payouts at firms that repeatedly pollute England’s waterways with sewage
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership now👇
Reposted by Dr Amy-Jane Beer
Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
Delighted to have a part in bringing the brilliant #RaveOnForTheAvon to York City Screen & to be part of Q&A panel with director Charlotte Sawyer @yorkswildlife.bsky.social CEO @rachaelbice.bsky.social and swim guide Sarah Banks. Showing 4 Sept, book now!
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
Green Screen: Rave On For The Avon + Live Panel | Showtimes and Tickets
Norwich - Thursday 17th July + Live panel with The Rivers Trust and River Waveney Trust
Host: Martha Meek - River Waveney Trust
Samantha Wood & Peter Smith - Cow Towe...
www.picturehouses.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Delighted to have a part in bringing the brilliant #RaveOnForTheAvon to York City Screen & to be part of Q&A panel with director Charlotte Sawyer @yorkswildlife.bsky.social CEO @rachaelbice.bsky.social and swim guide Sarah Banks. Showing 4 Sept, book now!
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...
Your annual reminder to reconsider ‘weeds’. The teasel, knapweed, ragwort, yarrow, vipers bugloss, wild marjoram burdock and valerian in my garden are all self-introduced and self-seeded and they are indisputably what make it hum.
July 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Your annual reminder to reconsider ‘weeds’. The teasel, knapweed, ragwort, yarrow, vipers bugloss, wild marjoram burdock and valerian in my garden are all self-introduced and self-seeded and they are indisputably what make it hum.
Reposted by Dr Amy-Jane Beer
Reminder that, 10 years ago, Sheffield Council signed a PFI contract which led to the felling of thousands of mature street trees - mainly to save the contractor a few quid. It then took out injunctions against local residents protesting the felling and used arcane anti-union laws to lock them up.
Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years
Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, sentenced for act of criminal damage that sparked widespread sadness and anger
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reminder that, 10 years ago, Sheffield Council signed a PFI contract which led to the felling of thousands of mature street trees - mainly to save the contractor a few quid. It then took out injunctions against local residents protesting the felling and used arcane anti-union laws to lock them up.
Ummm. Imagine such sentences for raptor persecution on a shooting estate, or for river pollution, habitat destruction or felling enacted by a farmer, large landowner, private company, council contractor or developer? What could POSSIBLY be the diffence I wonder? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years
Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, sentenced for act of criminal damage that sparked widespread sadness and anger
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Ummm. Imagine such sentences for raptor persecution on a shooting estate, or for river pollution, habitat destruction or felling enacted by a farmer, large landowner, private company, council contractor or developer? What could POSSIBLY be the diffence I wonder? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Dear Derwent. Getting in here most days at the moment and it’s a balm. The heat, the horror, the hype, the helterskelter hassle of 2025 recede for just a few precious, slow minutes when it’s just me and the reflections, the martins and the water lilies.
July 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Dear Derwent. Getting in here most days at the moment and it’s a balm. The heat, the horror, the hype, the helterskelter hassle of 2025 recede for just a few precious, slow minutes when it’s just me and the reflections, the martins and the water lilies.
Missed this yesterday, sharing so you don’t. The grotesque waste and ecological carnage of intensive pheasant stocking brilliantly described by @nicolawriting.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | The Guardian
Country diary: Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | Nicola Chester
North Wessex Downs, Hampshire: Predators are increasingly drawn by the shooting-season escapees. But, miserably, other ground-nesting birds and their eggs are being taken, too
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Missed this yesterday, sharing so you don’t. The grotesque waste and ecological carnage of intensive pheasant stocking brilliantly described by @nicolawriting.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Like wrecked prizes, the body parts of pheasants litter the landscape | The Guardian
Absolutely superb from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the real threat to rural life (spoiler, it *really* isn’t Right to Roam). Sharing this with heartfelt sympathy for the residents Littlebredy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot
This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Absolutely superb from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the real threat to rural life (spoiler, it *really* isn’t Right to Roam). Sharing this with heartfelt sympathy for the residents Littlebredy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Custodians of the land, right?
The illegal killing of Hen Harriers has hit a devastating new high. ⚠️
A new RSPB report reveals 102 incidents in just five years - with the majority on, or near, grouse moors.
A thread…
A new RSPB report reveals 102 incidents in just five years - with the majority on, or near, grouse moors.
A thread…
June 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Custodians of the land, right?
My Country Diary today: the absurd glamour of swallowtails. Thanks to @patrickbarkham.bsky.social for the tip, NWT for superb site management & Dee Maddams for the gorgeous photos www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: A butterfly with a touch of the Elizabeth Taylors | Amy-Jane Beer
Hickling Broad, Norfolk: The glamorous decoration, paparazzi tracking its every move – the swallowtail is just another reason to visit this remarkable reserve
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My Country Diary today: the absurd glamour of swallowtails. Thanks to @patrickbarkham.bsky.social for the tip, NWT for superb site management & Dee Maddams for the gorgeous photos www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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And following @amyjanebeer.bsky.social's column in our June issue, we spoke to Roger Meade about the ongoing fight for peatland protection at Danes Moss, Macclesfield. Read our conversation here: www.britishwildlife.com/the-conserva...
June 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
And following @amyjanebeer.bsky.social's column in our June issue, we spoke to Roger Meade about the ongoing fight for peatland protection at Danes Moss, Macclesfield. Read our conversation here: www.britishwildlife.com/the-conserva...
Excited to say I’ve written and recorded three episodes of Tweet of the Day for Radio 4. The first to air will be reed warbler, that small but mighty holder of space, this coming Sunday. Listen live if you’re an early bird or come back later for a catch up.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Tweet of the Day, Amy-Jane Beer on the Reed Warbler
For Amy-Jane Beer, the reed warbler is a superstar DJ scratching a hypnotic blend of sound
www.bbc.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Excited to say I’ve written and recorded three episodes of Tweet of the Day for Radio 4. The first to air will be reed warbler, that small but mighty holder of space, this coming Sunday. Listen live if you’re an early bird or come back later for a catch up.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Just finished The Possibility of Tenderness by @jallenpaisant.bsky.social and now cannot wait to interview him at @deershed.bsky.social next month. Enriching, enlightening, enraging, beauty on every page, absolutely magnificent. 🌺
June 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Just finished The Possibility of Tenderness by @jallenpaisant.bsky.social and now cannot wait to interview him at @deershed.bsky.social next month. Enriching, enlightening, enraging, beauty on every page, absolutely magnificent. 🌺