Nadia Shaikh - Foraging Laws, Rights and Responsibilities Lecture (online)

6.30pm – 7.45pm
Tue 5 May 2026

Bethnal Green Nature Reserve is excited to host an online talk by Nadia Shaikh. This lecture forms part of the Experimental School of Urban Ecologies: Foraging & Land Stewardship online talk series.

Nadia is a land justice campaigner and co-director of the Right to Roam, an organisation that organises peaceful trespasses into some of the vast areas of countryside from which the public are currently excluded. She covers the campaign's operations, events, and work on social justice.

A naturalist and conservationist, Nadia has devoted her life to repairing our relationship with nature. 

‘Our Land’, the Right to Roam film, is coming to a cinema near you.

The film explores who has access to land, why that matters, and how the Right to Roam movement is reshaping the relationship between people, nature, and the countryside. Through striking landscapes, personal stories, and the voices of campaigners, walkers, and communities, ‘Our Land’ asks an urgent question: who is the land really for?

You can see ‘Our Land’ at screenings across the country. Here is the current screening schedule: https://www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution/our-land

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Pumpkin grown on on the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Ecology Garden