Wild Pavements - Urban Wildlife Walk & Talk
With Author Amanda Tuke
Join Amanda on a walk around Dorchester to explore the wild plants and other wildlife that find a home under our very feet. This walk will start outside Teasel & Skylark in Trinity Street at 10am.
Then, at 11.30am, in The King’s Arms Hotel, hear Amanda discuss her book ‘Wild Pavements - Exploring Britain’s Cities With An Urban Naturalist’.
About Wild Pavements
The book explores the wildlife flourishing within Britain's urban environments and the people working to understand and protect it. Amanda travels through cities across the British Isles, showing how nature survives — and sometimes flourishes — in some very unexpected places.
Amanda travels from London to cities including Liverpool, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Sheffield and Aberdeen, uncovering everything from wild bees on canal banks and rare plants growing in pavement cracks to birds nesting amid some of Britain’s busiest streets. Her central message is a simple one: people do not necessarily need to travel into the countryside to experience remarkable wildlife — much of it is already living alongside us.
About Amanda Tuke
Amanda Tuke is an urban naturalist, nature writer, consultant botanist and lecturer. She leads urban wildlife walks and writes regularly about the natural world found within towns and cities. Her first book, Wild Pavements: Exploring Britain’s Cities with an Urban Naturalist, was published by Flint Books/The History Press in March 2026 and was longlisted for the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.
She writes a monthly column for Bird Watching Magazine and has contributed to publications including BBC Countryfile Magazine, RSPB Magazine and Resurgence. She was previously nature-writer-in-residence for London Wildlife Trust’s Great North Wood project.
