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Emma Cameron

@ecameron.bsky.social
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Author of A Scattering and Our Precious Earth. Writer, climate activist, artist, lover of wildlife particularly dragonflies and bats. #ClimateJustice

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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 7h
Woolbeding Common looking beautiful in the October sunshine. Lots of fungi including some gorgeous fly agaric. #fungi #autumn #westsussex @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 15h
Spot the chiffchaff! Three or four hopping about in the birch trees this morning, beautifully camouflaged against the yellow and green leaves. Lovely to see them back. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #chiffchaffs #autumn
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Love to anyone else writing a book - it can be such a slow process that I sometimes feel like I’m a snail going backwards. 🐌 Have to remember that one day it will be finished! #booksky #amwriting
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Still some butterflies about even though it’s October, now they have to dodge the spiderwebs! #butterflies
Speckled Wood butterfly with wings open resting on a shrub
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
I would like to see an eco rating for gardens and outdoor spaces as part of property valuation surveys. Paved front spaces rate poorly, spaces which are nature friendly (fruiting trees, gaps below fences for hedgehogs, etc.) rate highly. Normalise Nature having worth.
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For #nationalpoetryday - a poem by my late younger sister Lucy Cameron, poet, artist and musician (member of The Househunters with #jowehead )
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Far from taking pride in it, the men who killed this magnificent animal should be deeply ashamed. That swift, sleek, wonderful monster, flashing with holographic colours, reduced to a dead black lump. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
devonlive.com
Monster 282kg tuna landed in Brixham is 'heaviest ever' catch
Giant £4,000 Bluefin tuna caught off Devon coast could be heading to Michelin-starred restaurants
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bees on ivy flowers. Please don’t cut back ivy when it’s flowering - it’s great for late pollinators. @lgspace.bsky.social #letitgrow
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please sign this important petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Burning Our Moors: Protect our kids, not grouse hunts.
Landowners burn heather for driven grouse shooting, leading to harmful air pollution, increased flood risk, and increased wildfire risk, all while releasing tonnes of carbon into the air, accelerating...
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Before and after photos. The first was taken a week ago of pavement plants with Clouded Yellow butterfly (not in anyone’s way) - the second taken today after the West Sussex Council glyphosate spraying machine had been around. The dead plants will not be removed. #banglyphosate #pavementplants
A clouded yellow butterfly on yellow flower against wallDead plants against a wall
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The biggest fungi you ever did see! (Under some holm oaks on a road in Worthing) @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #fungi
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love these
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How about two?!
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good to watch the powerful #guardianlive event tonight, with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social talking about End Times Fascism. Glad they mentioned the UK government’s disgraceful treatment of peaceful climate activists and those protesting about genocide.
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Make your voice heard on the issue of pesticides! Help us get the dangerous herbicide glyphosate out of our gardens, parks, playgrounds and public spaces... www.gardenorganic.org.uk/get-involved...
gardenorganic.org.uk
Garden Organic | Sign our Growers Against Glyphosate petition!
Garden Organic promotes organic growing and composting, citizen science and research, and seed conservation through our Heritage Seed Library. We want to…
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 26/09/2026
Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A field in West Sussex
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A touch of autumn colour and some beautiful fungi in Nore Wood, Slindon. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @southdownsnp.bsky.social #autumn #fungi
Beech trees turning from green to goldWhite fungi on fallen branch Fungi covering a stump cluster of yellow and orange fungi
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️
Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Blue on silver and brown Worth not cutting back all seed heads in your green space in Autumn as insects just love resting, roosting or even mating on them! #belesstidy4life
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That sounds like a good project
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I haven’t been out in my kayak for a while but the light was so beautiful and the water so calm yesterday I headed out for a paddle. Didn’t see the bluefin tuna that have been seen around but it was lovely being on the water. #kayaking
Purple and blue kayak pointing out to sea
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Beautiful!
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are so excited to be in the UK and Ireland next week. Come hear us talk about the politicians, religious leaders, and tech oligarchs who want us to believe they can bring about the end of the world.
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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🌊 Baby seahorses, incandescent ribbon fish, patrolling hammerhead sharks... The utterly spell-binding images from this year's Ocean Photographer of the Year winners will give you the dose of ocean wonder you needed today 📸🔽 bit.ly/4y4Plbl
oceanographicmagazine.com
Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 winners announced - Oceanographic
The winners of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026, presented by Oceanographic and Blancpain, have been revealed.
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good news! Sandilands, a former golf course on the Lincolnshire coast, has been transformed by the National Trust into a 2km-long nature reserve with wetlands, wading pools, rough grassland & coastal scrub. Fairways and bunkers were turned into shallow pools and islands for shore and marsh birds.
theguardian.com
Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When climate protesters - some elderly women - lay down in the street, they were jailed: the men of the far right, on the other hand, disperse without being arrested. I talked to @natashawalter.bsky.social about the crackdown on eco-protestors in the UK. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/dont-lean-in...
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Don’t Lean In: Natasha Walter on Ecofeminism
“Environmentalism without feminism is a patriarchy in the forest, but the women’s movement without environmentalism is a women’s centre on a dead planet.”
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of beautiful insects around enjoying the late September sun. #insects #butterflies #bees #hoverflies #dragonflies
Stripy bee or hoverfly on blue geranium.Common carder bee on blue geraniumSpeckled Wood butterfly on grey rockMale common darter on grey rock
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lovely! #wildcats 🐾
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There’s still some space on my 2 upcoming zoom w’shops:bird illustr’n & mental health,10 Oct & botanical illustr’n & mental health,7 Nov.I teach you how to draw birds/plants & how creative activity alters 🧠 biochemistry to lift mood.Incl 10% off materials & full recording: workshops.emmamitchell.uk
My drawing of a wren Cornflowers, nigella, sweet peas & Russian safe & my drawings of them on the opposite page of a sketchbook A spring collection of nature finds and my drawings of them alongside, on white watercolour paper with my watercolour palette & paintbrush in the corner
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This looks good! #booksky #climateaction
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Watched the first episode of this very important programme, Finding Britains Slave Traders with #DavidOlusoga Recent research shows the royal family, beginning with Elizabeth 1 and continuing with the Stuarts, to be key financiers and backers of the transatlantic slave trade. #history
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Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga - Series 1: Episode 1
David Olusoga reveals the new research that uncovers how the slave trade was driven by the monarchy, beginning with Elizabeth I, and how a royal monopoly was established.
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great to see ‘The Things We Never Say’ by @lizstrout.bsky.social on the shortlist. Such a wonderful novel. #booksky
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026
Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist in full:

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
John of John by Douglas Stuart
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m sure they have!
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Common Darter with shadow. Several still around and ovipositing in the pond. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #dragonflies #ponds
Orangey red common darter on grey stone with white lichen
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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 21/09/2026
Donate to the purchase of Rothbury Estate this week and your donation will be doubled! I just contributed and @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social are almost at their goal www.wildlifetrusts.org
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Home | The Wildlife Trusts
The Wildlife Trusts is a federation of 47 independent wildlife conservation charities covering the UK, Alderney and the Isle of Man. We manage nature reserves, help people to learn about nature and ca...
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good news! Dorset’s #seagrass meadows are recovering thanks to “eco moorings” designed to prevent the seabed being ripped up. Seagrass meadows are one of the world’s most valuable ecosystems- as well as supporting creatures such as seahorses, they store carbon & help protect coastlines from erosion.
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‘Incredibly encouraging’: healing the scars of traditional anchors in Dorset’s seagrass meadows
Eco-moorings restore seagrass in just five years, boosting sealife such as seahorses, eels and crabs
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WSCC haven’t sprayed this brilliant bristly ox-tongue plant, (they’re doing a trial without using glyphosate and so far haven’t strimmed these down) which is making the clouded yellows and me very happy. 🙂 Saw four or five around. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🖤 I’m devastated by the sad news about @joeharkness.bsky.social All my love to his family. Joe and me were really good friends, not because we were both authors or loved naturey things, but for funny and poignant reasons… Some more words: www.instagram.com/p/DdhEBuwjTK...
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rest in peace, Joe Harkness. I was shocked and gutted when I heard the news. He was a generous, inspirational teacher and such an important writer. He was brutally honest, inclusive and funny too. When I interviewed him last summer (below) he was so full of life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Intrinsically connected’: how human neurodiversity could help save nature
Biodiversity is linked to people’s diversity, and nature lends itself to people who are different, says author Joe Harkness
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Astonishing exhibition by Cuban-American artist #AnaMendieta at #tatemodern Photo, video and drawings of her work about the body and connection to the land and her interest in ancient and Indigenous art. #womenartists
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Bootsy says happy #Caturday ! (A Cameron tartan rug is heaven.) #writerscats 🐾
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Researching for a novel can take you to wonderful places, such as this book, Life Between the Tides, by #AdamNicholson, with beautiful illustrations by Kate Boxer. An examination of the life of an anemone becomes a consideration of consciousness and what it means to be alive. #researching #booksky
Cover of a book in blue gold and orange titled, Life Between The TidesPainting in yellow and orange of a hermit crab, illustration for a book
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Found a beautiful Large Yellow Underwing in the kitchen. Safely transferred to the ivy in the garden. #moths @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Large brown moth on grey tiles
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lovely! A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s ⁠cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species. The cat, called Tilcayo by local communities. It measures about 18in long and weighs about 3lbs making it smaller than the average domestic ⁠cat. #wildcats
theguardian.com
New cat species identified in Bolivia for first time in more than a century
New species of wild cat was discovered in Bolivia’s Yungas forest and is smaller than the average domestic ⁠cat
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This sounds good! #booksky #naturewriting
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