“People act because they care… and culture is what makes people care” Ayshka Najib, Youth Climate Activist, Exeter Climate Forum July 1st 2026Anne Marie showing London Met Guests the CGST July 1st Exeter Climate ForumJune 2026 was ’climate action month’ for Walking...
Image: UNFCCC Climate conference, Bonn, June 26 Who’s at the COP climate talks? Monarch butterflies, two species of sea turtle, a terrapin and damselfly, chipmunk, gum Arabic (Sudanese acacia) jasmine, carder bee, wild boar, golden fig - crawling, seeding, leaping,...
From June 13th - 18th we went to the second week of the SB64 subsidiary body climate negotiations in Bonn, an event that is becoming part of our annual Walking Forest calendar. These are the talks in between the annual COP gatherings where politicians and parties...
In March, Lucy travelled from London to Morocco on behalf of Walking Forest. By train through France and Spain; a boat across the Straits of Gibraltar and a night sleeper on from Tangier to attend the Marrakesh Partnership Accelerator - a gathering of cultural global...
In its simplest form Walking Forest combines the story of one remarkable tree from a lost Suffragette arboretum; a new native arboretum planted to mirror this ‘lost’ woodland whilst honouring also the actions of today’s brave ‘earth defenders’ and a 100 mile walking...
Anne-Marie, Lucy and Ruth attended the Bonn Climate Talks in June 2025 to deliver Walk With Walking Forest, The Honouring Cloth and Seed Gifting. The context was the annual ‘midyear’ meeting point for 6,000 delegates preparing for the COP30 talks in Belém, Brazil in...
Will we make the connection? In June, Ruth, Anne-Marie and Lucy travel by train from the UK to Brussels then onto Bonn where the 2025 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks are being held. This Bonn Climate Change Conference - known as...
The Tree Salutation is a project looking at human healing whilst honouring trees through a series of simple movements and breathwork. It was co-created by Estrella Luna Diez (Principle Investigator of MEMBRA and Plant Pathologist), Honor Wolf Moon (Yoga Teacher and...
‘It almost seems like we are not in a crisis. We are in a crisis when its 126 degree fahrenheit. That is a problem… we are in crisis right now. Using the word ‘change’ is not effective and I feel like we are going at such a turtle pace right now, the world is burning,...
Leia Booth writes on Walking Forest's experience at SB 60 Bonn, June 3rd - 13th 2024 During the dawning weeks of summer in early June, Ruth boarded the Eurostar to Bonn, Germany to attend the 60th Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB 60) held under the United...
Read about the first part of the Tree Nursery project here Days before the summer solstice, 2024 our second Walking Forest Tree Nursery Workshop was held in Birmingham with community participants. Ruth, Anne and I travelled to the Dolphin Women’s Centre in Ward End...
Our recent collaboration with Salt Road and communities from Birmingham, exploring memory, ancestry and tree seed nuturing within the context of wider research from MEMBRA.
'Meaningful, touching, enraging, inspiring stops and talks. Besides, cycling and gaining the skills and courage is such a joy!' — Berna Vardar Radical Rose: a cycle ride around central London running in parallel to Extinction Rebellion's The Big One - took place on...
Collaborations with scientists and ecologists will generate new artworks and shape a ‘Catalogue of Terms’ exploring the language of trees in different disciplines. This will contribute to a policy workshop and interdisciplinary conference in 2024 bringing together the...
The travel conditions were hardly favourable and for many of us just the idea of being outside in the sub-zero temperatures forecast wasn’t exactly enticing, but such is the pull of the Last Suffragette Tree.
MEMBRA asks the question: do trees have memory, and if they do how would that change our perception of them and their standing in our world?
Charlotte Du Cann & the Coventry Walking Forest Anchor Women share thoughts and feelings about Walking Forest Projects in 2021.
On a sunny cold day in October 2021, we were joined by about 20 women, many of whom had taken part in a performative action during which we had collectively carried a silver birch felled by HS2 through the streets of the Coventry.
On 15 and 16 October 2021 from dawn until dusk a felled tree moved through the streets of Coventry, carried by a group of women in an act of endurance and love for the planet and future generations, mourning the loss of forests and ecosystems around the world and...
A felled tree moves through Glasgow carried by a group of women. An act of endurance and love for the planet.
The Walking Forest Coventry camp held from 27th to 30th May was a 4-day camp held at Rough Close woodland on the outskirts of Coventry. An open invitation was sent out & 30 women joined together to explore the link between women, trees, and activism as part of...
Are you a woman inspired by the natural world, hoping to make change in your community and the wider world? Do you live in Coventry or surroundings? Come and plant a seed of courage! Join our Walking Forest camp 27 to 30 May read on for more information...
From 19-21 March 2021 a group of 15 women gathered to join us and take part in Walking Forest’s first camp online for South Devon. Here three participants, Rosa, Annie and Judy share their experience of the camp. The Camp forms part of Walking Forest’s Season For...
An invitation to join the Walking Forest Online Camp on 19th-21st March. If you would to find out more about the camp please come to our Q & A session on Thursdays 4th, 11th and 18th March at 10.30am.
In 2020 we began our community research, first in Coventry, to see who might be interested in Walking Forest. Follow Lucy Neal’s mapping of the city, its people and places, as she makes connections through time and place like the mycelial web. Read more below.My...
The invitation: Join an international online gathering for Women Earth defenders and activists to share personal accounts, make connections and inspire courage in us all. This online gathering will be participatory and nourishing inviting participants to share and...
Throughout our travels to Glasgow and beyond, Lucy Neal, myself and Anne-Marie Culhane witnessed rivers bursting their seams and reclaiming land, causing heartache for communities and farmers, expanding territory for beavers, and washing away crops.
In December 2018 Lucy Neal and Shelley Castle took the train to Poland to gift seeds from the last remaining Suffragette Tree in Batheaston, UK to delegates at the COP24 climate talks. This was followed a week later by a night time Vigil at Rose’s tree back in the...
We started the first annual WF vigil in December 2018 inviting each year a small group of predominantly women to gather with us in the company of the last standing Suffragette Tree in Batheaston.
Ruth, Lucy and Anne-Marie talk about their radical ancestors and particular sources of inspiration from the suffragette movement.
The Blathwayt family created a place of recovery for over 60 women imprisoned for their political activism at their country residence Eagle House, in Batheaston.
Rose Lamartine Yates was an English social campaigner and suffragette. Together with her lawyer husband she worked for female suffrage from 1908 and during the First World War, and was willing to suffer arrest and incarceration for her beliefs.
An invitation to join the Walking Forest Online Glasgow Camp – Tues 21st, Thu 23rd and Tues 28th September.
There are four strands to the work for this year and going into 2021 – Trees, Mycelium, Gifting & Propagation Camps.
On October 14th 2019 we invited people to join us on a performative mile-long walk in London timed to coincide with the October International Extinction Rebellion. Invitations went out through Walking Forest networks as well as directly through Extinction Rebellion circles.
Theatre maker, writer and community activist Lucy Neal describes her trip to the COP24 negotiations in Poland in December 2018.
Partnering with Moor Trees we spent a day under the canopy of ancient Dartmoor oak, gathering acorns to plant for future forests.