Episode 068 - Right to Roam with Nadia Shaikh

Hello and welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. This is the last episode of the summer before we return in September with the special episodes created in collaboration identity on tyne and the Black Nature in Residence programme. 

In this episode, your host, Dr. Sheree Mack is talking to the lovely and knowledgeable Nadia Shaikh. Calling in from the Isle of Bute, they talk about:

* Situating themselves

* The Isle of Bute and Scotland

* Land Justice Activism

* What is the Right to Roam?

* Land ownership 

* Scotland's Right to Roam

* Colonialism upon British soil

* The Raven Network

* The Earth Sea Love Episodes exploring Racial Equity Network of the National Trust

* You don't have to know the names to have a relationship with nature

* Wild Service the book.

Bio is: Nadia Shaikh is a naturalist and ornithologist who has worked in nature conservation for over 14 years. She left the sector to focus on the links between our legacy of land ownership, limited access to nature and the link to biodiversity loss. She is co-director of the Right to Roam Campaign and is one of the authors of Wild Service. She founded The Raven Network, a group for people of colour who work in the nature conservation and environment sector, the network seeks to understand how to decolonizing the way we think about nature conservation.