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Kira Walker

@kira-walker.bsky.social
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Facilitator, ritualist & writer tending ecological grief. Chasing light, birds, beauty & awe. Read my newsletter Amor Mundi on Substack ✨🌿🕊️ kira-walker.com

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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Your effort matters, even though it’s never going to be enough on its own — and you can carry that tension without letting it flatten you." grist.org/culture/ask-...
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How to deal with burnout on a burning planet
Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice to two readers facing paralysis from different points in their climate journeys.
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Grief is not here to take us hostage,” Weller writes in The Wild Edge of Sorrow, “but instead to reshape us in some fundamental way.” kiraw.substack.com/p/my-apprent...
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My apprenticeship with sorrow
Turning towards grief, turning towards life
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Planning for a future that feels unstable is a genuine challenge. Let yourself feel the weight of that before reaching for solutions...Feeling the loss is part of staying whole—neither turning away from what worries you, nor losing sight of what you can still shape." thenarwhal.ca/ask-climate-...
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Ask a climate therapist: Planning for an uncertain future | The Narwhal
Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice to a young reader staring down a world of uncertainty
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In my latest essay, I write about something that won't leave me alone: the grief-laden emptiness we experience as a "species out of context" kiraw.substack.com/p/a-species-...
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A species out of context
We aren't meant to live this way
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
In the wake of the relentless string of storms that lashed the Iberian Peninsula, I wrote about entanglement and the lives we consider worthy of mourning.
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To mourn a tree
On entanglement and the lives we grieve
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"This is Europe’s new reality: under water in winter, withered in summer. Yet even as the weather extremes worsen, the voices of denial have grown louder and more influential." Excellent piece on the distance between lived realities and ideological denial. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis?
Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
"If we’re willing to welcome it, to not try to outrun it, push it away, numb it out, or distract ourselves from it, our grief is a compass towards what matters most to us, what we love, the world we long for." kiraw.substack.com/p/the-world-...
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The world we long for
When your beliefs about life shatter, welcome the grief in
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Debborah Donnelly @debborahdonnelly.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Ghosts of the Little Smoky 🦌 #caribou kiraw.substack.com/p/ghosts-of-...
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Ghosts of the Little Smoky
What do we lose when the caribou vanish?
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We’d be wise to heed the signals the caribou—and the land—are sending us, lest these creatures who have roamed Earth for over a million years, surviving the Ice Age, the assaults of colonization and over a century of industrial extraction, soon vanish into ghosts kiraw.substack.com/p/ghosts-of-...
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Ghosts of the Little Smoky
What do we lose when the caribou vanish?
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Some of my most cherished memories involve cities, but oh do I feel this: "Chronic stress and many modern health issues are the result of an evolutionary mismatch between our primarily nature-adapted biology and the industrialized environments we now inhabit." phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Humans are evolved for nature, not cities, say anthropologists
A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that...
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
“And its song, my freight.” ‘Prayer for When I’m Lost’ by Patrick Rosal, in Orion’s Autumn 2025 issue orionmagazine.org/article/pray...
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"There is so much we can do when our hearts can’t take it anymore." What a wonderful, rich conversation between @alexismarieadams.bsky.social and @julianhoffman.bsky.social
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
'Though the specificities of colonization are unique to each location, what is consistent about colonialism is that it “has operated and continues to operate through the disruption and re-ordering of relations between humans, land and lively beings.”' kiraw.substack.com/p/the-gaze-o...
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The gaze of a bison
From North America to Palestine, “the horror of settler colonization has always been a multispecies endeavour”
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Bird lovers and bird-friendly people: please join me in helping support birders of Gaza and their families as they try to survive genocide and ethnic cleansing, while still encouraging their love for birding. birdersofpalestine.com
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Birders of Palestine
Support the birdwatchers of Gaza. Prints and postcards taken by Palestinian birders.
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"If this level of horror can be written about, recorded, Tweeted, livestreamed, and broadcast by journalists in Gaza, only to be ignored by politicians and journalists in the West, then what is the point of journalism?" lithub.com/how-do-we-te...
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How Do We Tell the Story of Gaza’s Murdered Journalists?
Since October 2023, I have been closely following the most outstanding cohort of journalists in the world: the mighty but dwindling community of journalists in Gaza.  For about a year, I attended p…
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I wrote about the Prespa lakes region in northern Greece for @theguardian.com today. At the crossroads of three countries and my home for the past quarter of a century, it's a place that continues to surprise me with its wild beauty and rich human cultures. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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Balkan bounty: the little-known corner of Greece now ripe for walkers and nature tourism
Mountains, butterflies, bears and pelicans are among the natural wonders in the stunning Prespa lakes region, which straddles three countries
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
One year after wildfire devastated Jasper, Canada, a reflection on one of the defining emotions of our time: solastalgia. kiraw.substack.com/p/when-ashes...
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When ashes paint the sky
Solastalgia and grief in an era scorched by flames
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Ever since I first visited, I’d felt haunted by how somewhere so precious, so rich in life, could be so recklessly destroyed. I’d returned because I wanted to see the landscape when it was flooded. To imagine how Doñana was, and maybe still could be, in all its lush, watery, bird-rich glory.
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A wetland without water
How greed, excess and the failure to love imperilled one of Europe's ecological treasures
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
"Stopping threats is not enough. As many as 250-350 species will require complementary conservation measures … to survive the next century.”
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‘Extinction crisis’ could see 500 bird species vanish within a century – report
Researchers say urgent conservation efforts will be needed to mitigate the ‘shocking statistic’ that threatens to unravel ecosystems
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Essential piece by the great Suzy Hansen. "A society still conducting this kind of manmade technological violence after many decades of knowing exactly the suffering it causes to innocent people must believe in these weapons much more than in life itself." nymag.com/intelligence...
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Israel’s Crimes of the Century
How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Looking forward to Sadiah Qureshi's new book Vanished on how extinction is entangled with race, empire and colonialism. "Paying attention to the life around us and recalibrating how we value that life is just as powerful as having more scientific research”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire
In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
#CanadaIsBurning, and it won't be solved by expanding oil and gas. @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social #cdnppli
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Mary Anne Schleinich @interactionfirst.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Must watch, like the must read. @johnvaillant.bsky.social has straight answers to our Qs. Do we want it any other way? We and our planet deserve this kind of respect. @livewirecalgary.bsky.social @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAL0...
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Wildfire expert answers your questions on fire prevention, control
YouTube video by CBC News
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night. It is too devastating to see how few there are.” On climate change and a shifting world: for insects, for birds, for bats, for us. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The boreal zone of Canada is being transformed by fire faster than any other forested region on earth. The Amazon is not far behind. "We are the world, and the world is on fire..."
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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing. Natela Grigalashvili photographed one pastoral nomadic community over 10 years to explore how people adapt to changing circumstances and create new meaning in today’s world: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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The Last Nomads — The Dial
In Georgia’s Adjara highlands, a traditional way of life is slowly disappearing.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Western governments have made it clear that they do not care about human rights and the rule of law when it comes to people of colour, the global majority. They spit on humanity. 500 years on from the beginning of the European colonial project and they have hardly changed in this regard.
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"The decision marks a shift away from science-based policymaking in the new EU mandate, setting a worrying trend that can reach far beyond the wolf." www.birdlife.org/news/2025/05...
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Europe turns its back on wolves and on science
Environmental groups condemn EU Parliament’s approval to downgrade wolf protection as an attack on nature
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Kira Walker @kira-walker.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I've started a Substack, Amor Mundi, where I'll be writing about love of the world through themes like awe, beauty, courage, coexistence and grief—often with a connecting thread to the natural world. Here's my first essay: kiraw.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
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When the world aches
Love it anyway
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Alexis Adams @alexismarieadams.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
For the birds—and the people who endeavor to save them, including @julianhoffman.bsky.social, my story for the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
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Jared Kushner Targets Albania’s Adriatic Coast for Luxury Tourism
Two major proposals led by Jared Kushner and a new airport championed by the Albanian government focus on an area prized for its biodiversity. Are they a sign of things to come?
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Great to see so many wonderful winners of this year's Goldman Prize for grassroots environmental action, including Olsi Nika and Besjana Guri for their incredible efforts to protect the free-flowing Vjosa River in Albania from the threat of hydro-electric dams. news.mongabay.com/2025/04/meet...
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Meet the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners
Seven environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 21. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six inhab...
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It takes an almost impressive level of cognitive malfunction to think of Grozny, Sarajevo, Aleppo, and Mariupol as war crimes while considering this legitimate warfare.
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Grist @grist.org · 03/04/2025
What ‘the world’s loneliest whale’ may be telling us about climate change. grist.org/oceans/what-... #Whales #Ocean #Climate #Seas
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What ‘the world’s loneliest whale’ may be telling us about climate change
A mysterious whale that has long puzzled scientists may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath the waves.
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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Turtle-dove hunting season reopens! The EU Commission just gave the green light for EU countries to resume the hunt for European Turtle-doves, ending a 3-year pause. This is reckless, short-sighted and will take this bird back to the brink. More info: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04...
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This young man had more dignity and integrity in his short career than the thousands of comfortable Western journalists who have remained silent as their governments have armed and funded a genocide.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
💔💔💔
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been assaulted & injured by settlers at his home in the West Bank & arrested by the IDF. No trace of him since. The vengeance is clear. Do not let Hamdan disappear. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
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Morten 🇩🇰 @mortenc.eurosky.social · 23/03/2025
From Greenland
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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🐺 Today, the Bern Convention's decision to weaken #wolf protection officially enters into force. Wolves in Europe are still far from a favourable conservation status: this move threatens their fragile recovery instead of promoting true coexistence and listening to science. #SavetheWolf
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Given that whales have been around far longer than humans it might be more accurate to say that human languages have patterns that resemble humpback whale songs. www.newscientist.com/article/2467...
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Humpback whale songs have patterns that resemble human language
The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned
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Nick Ashdown @nickashdown.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I heard from someone who works closely with a Canadian premier that during a trip to the US, Republican senators were pulling them aside and saying, we know it sounds crazy, but yes, he's dead serious about the annexation stuff.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
12. Every freedom, every improvement we have ever gained has been achieved through struggle. Our rights have arisen through previously powerless people combining to develop networks of community power. Democratic power is never given. It has to be taken.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It's instructive to see which media orgs have been willing to stand up against this seizure of power, and which have chosen to lie down. This is history in the making, and these choices will be recorded.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"Reality does not require human belief in order to be real." -- Fire Weather, ch. 10.
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
One of The Economist's most-read articles this week: why Canada should join the EU. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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Why Canada should join the EU
Europe needs space and resources, Canada needs people. Let’s deal
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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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🦇 Ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Lucy Grossmith, Mumurations over Fields
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