Tag: nature
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Nature’s Treasure Chest
I’ve been extremely lucky to work with a wonderful theatre company recently – Quirk Theatre – on their most recent show, Rhia and the Tree of Lights; this show is nothing short of magical. Rhia & The Tree of Lights follows the journey of a British-Indian girl living on the Jurassic Coast who comes across…
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Trophy Hunting: The Good, the Bad, and the Not what you thought.
Following a request from myself to write for the amazing nature/environmental magazine Natures Gold, and in keeping with the theme of “Home” present as the core of the 6th Issue of Spring 2021, I wrote an article that dealt with the much debated and controversial topic of “Trophy Hunting”, or as some know it as,…
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Mavericks and Spirituality: Why the Urban Birder is less about the Birding and more about the Connection.
I got the incredible opportunity to interview an icon of wildlife broadcasting and ornithology a while back; David Lindo, aka The Urban Birder, for Bloom in Doom Magazine, it was a fascinating interview, and a remarkable opportunity. We discussed everything from spirituality and diversity to birdwatching, you can have a read here on their website:…
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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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The Wildife Calming Effect
I’m going to start by apologising for the absence of any writing that I’ve done recently; but the transition from a normal life (well…fairly normal), to that of an A-level workaholic (I’d like to say that I am, but I think my mum would say otherwise) has meant that the cracks, perks and creases…
Jasmine Isa Qureshi 