Karen Lloyd

Karen Lloyd is an English author, poet, journalist, environmental activist, and Writer in Residence at the University of Lancaster's Future Places Centre. Her 2021 book Abundance: Nature in Recovery was longlisted for the 2022 James Cropper Wainwright Prize for International Conservation. Quotes As well as the human remains, the jawbone of a lynx was unearthed at Prehistoric Cumbria Kirkhead Cave. Lynx became extinct in the UK about 1,800 years ago, but I found it exciting to think of these beautiful, lithe creatures roaming over my home landscape. There were the bones of a 7,000-year-old dolphin that had most likely been dragged up to the cave by an animal. And a short distance away, in fact just an arrow's flight from Kirkhead Tower, is Humphrey Head, the place where the last wolf in England was reputedly killed. And although this idea might be fanciful (how on earth would anyone know where the very last wolf died anyway?), there's evidence of wolves right here on the doorstep. Elk had been roaming northern Britain over 1,300 years ago and their bones were found in the cavern. They had been gnawed by a large predator. The most likely candidate? Wolf. Chapter 10. In Search of Lynx, Elk and Wolves The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay Saraband 2022 9781915089076 https://books.google.com/books?id=cpHxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT101 (208 pages; 2016 1st edition; quote from last page in Chapter 10) The Hunting Act 2004 law on blood-sports remains unambiguous, but still the fox hunts continue. Since the ban came into force more than ten years ago, I've seen — or more often heard — a number of hunts in progress. I've heard hounds in Kentmere tracking rapidly across the open ground of the higher fells, their baying echoing around the valley. Or down by the River Kent river, men with Working terrier terriers, turning to see who was driving past. Up here in Lakes Distric the Lakes, the hunt has always been on foot, but for all the lack of pomp and Fox hunting#Attire red coats, Riding boot long leather boots and money, I still loathe it. Chapter Two. Larks, Ascending. February 7 The Blackbird Diaries: A Year with Wildlife Saraband 2022 9781915089328 https://books.google.com/books?id=QpDxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22 (288 pages; 1st edition 2017) Thousands of birch, holly, Crataegus monogyna hawthorn, rowan, oak, alder and Populus tremula aspen are being planted, to create habitats of indigenous Silvopasture wood-pasture – of tree cover and open grazing. A kestrel flickered along the prickly spine of the new fence built to separate the sheep from the trees.Further on, beyond a bank of glacial moraine, the infant river Mint disappeared behind a drystone wall above what was once a Tarn (lake) tarn but has become a dry ochre basin of Juncus grasses. Canalised in a previous century, the Mint is to be re-meandered to its original course through the valley bottom, and Dub Ings will become a tarn once more. Like the new trees, this work – done in partnership with Natural England and another local farm – is intended to lessen the effects of flooding on communities further downstream; the memory of Storm Desmond is never far away. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/14/country-diary-bannisdale-cumbria-fells-planting-river-mint Country diary: the fells are buzzing with hope 14 January 2018 The Guardian In 1992, almost 2,000 of the world's leading scientists presented us with another way of looking at the world. In 'World Scientists' Warning to Humanity', they informed us that the current trajectory of Climate change global warming was unsustainable. ...... Some of us see what is happening but have little ability to act. Others see something else entirely because maintaining the juggernaut of the free market and Globalization globalisation is the priority. For them, the Natural environment natural world does little but get in the way. Abundance: Nature in Recovery Bloomsbury Publishing 2021 9781472989093 https://books.google.com/books?id=udckEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 16–17 (288 pages) External links Karen Lloyd website Category:Living people Category:Women academics from England Category:Environmentalists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Poets from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Essayists from England