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The urge to explore and celebrate all the kinds of lives of Planet Earth is stronger than ever, but the environmental and ecological crisis demands we also lift our eyes, and our voices, to species extinction and habitat loss, to what is happening to the forests and hills, the rivers and seas, our streets and gardens. The writer’s instinct to pay attention has never been more vital. Literature can help us to see the natural world – and our place in it – differently.

Climate action

NOBLE In context, I RILE

Art Gallery – Orange paint
Be then non-be, that is extinction.
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D Rudd-Mitchell
Paperboats being floated in a burn by children

Snack Magazine

Frustration with lack of Climate Change action leads Scotland’s Makar Kathleen Jamie to ask ‘What Can We Do?’ ahead of COP 28 Snack Magazine, November

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Paperboats made from old biology text books stamped with 'We Will Rise' on the side in red ink

At the Edinburgh Festival 2023

Paperboats launched in August 2023 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. We showed up with a table and some Paperboats and spent a glorious day

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Paperboat floating on on the Scottish Parliament ponds among leaf-litter.

Ghost Boats

The Splendid Poison Frog,
Spix’s Macaw,
the Bramble Cay Melomy,
the Moorean Tree Snail,

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Hugh McMillan
Paperboats folded from pages of a book stamped with 'We will rise'

Dear MSP

On the morning of the 23rd November 2023, writers, artists, activists and supporters, gathered outside the Scottish Parliament to call for cross-party support for urgent

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