Why I’m a Voice for Nature

I didn’t choose this path, Nature chose me.

Over twenty years ago, I found myself deep in the Amazon rainforest, guided not by logic but by an overwhelming inner calling. There, I was initiated into a world where Nature speaks, not through words, but through winds, waters, trees, and the quiet knowing of the Earth.

That experience changed everything. I didn’t just learn about the rainforest, I felt it. I heard it. I lived it. And I understood, in my bones, that the Earth is alive, conscious, and in desperate need of allies.

From that moment on, I made a vow: I would be a voice for Nature. Not because it’s fashionable or politically expedient, but because I genuinely believe that without Nature, there is no us.

Nature Can’t Speak for Herself in Courtrooms or Parliaments

The systems we live within, our legal frameworks, our governments, our economies, treat Nature as property. Land is bought and sold. Rivers are polluted without consequence. Forests are cleared for short-term profit. The Earth, our mother and life-giver, is reduced to a resource to be extracted, used, and discarded.

Nature cannot sit at the negotiation table. She cannot write laws or hold a microphone. But she is suffering. And if we remain silent in the face of her pain, we become complicit.

That is why I speak. That is why I fight. That is why I have devoted my life to this cause.

Rebekah Shaman and Protect Brockwell Park at the Royal Courts of Justice

Being a Voice Means Being in the Right Relationship

To be a voice for Nature is not about ego. It’s not about speaking for her as if I’m above her. It’s about being in the right relationship. It’s about listening first. We do this by honouring the seasons, paying attention to what the land needs, and practicing reciprocity, not just taking, but giving back. It’s about becoming a translator, a bridge between the human world and the more-than-human world.

My role isn’t to save Nature, she knows how to regenerate and thrive.

My role is to help humans remember that we are part of Nature. That what we do to her, we do to ourselves.

Rebekah Shaman in the Amazon

I Speak Because We Are in Crisis

We are now in the midst of a planetary emergency. Climate breakdown, mass extinction, ecological collapse, they’re not distant possibilities. They are happening now. And the root of this crisis is disconnection: from the Earth, from each other, and from ourselves.

But there is still time to choose a different path. One where we recognise the Earth as a living being with rights. One where our laws reflect the sacredness of life. One where we remember that our wellbeing is entwined with the health of our rivers, forests, and skies.

This Is More Than Activism. It’s a Sacred Duty.

For me, this isn’t just political, it’s spiritual. I believe that Nature has consciousness. That she communicates. That she grieves. And that she is calling to those who can hear to rise up on her behalf.

I speak because I must. Because the Earth is sacred. Because every tree felled without gratitude, every polluted waterway, every extinct species is a wound in the collective soul, and I cannot look away and pretend it’s going to be ok.

I am not perfect. I am still learning. But I walk this path with humility, devotion, and a fierce love for the planet that holds us all.

You Can Be a Voice Too

This is not a solo journey.

The Earth needs a choir, not a single voice.

We each have our part to play, whether through activism, education, healing, art, community building, or simply by living in alignment with Nature’s rhythms.

Being a voice for Nature means living in integrity with what we know in our hearts to be true: that life is precious, interconnected, and worthy of protection.

If you feel this calling too, then welcome. Let’s rise together, grounded in the Earth, and speak not only for Nature, but with her.