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Defending nature w/ their lives-MARTIN GOODMAN-The Extraordinary Story of India’s Bishnoi Email from What is humanity capable of? Click here, to View as Webpage. To unsubscribe scroll to bottom. Recommended: Scroll for links to timely articles How much good is humanity capable of? MARTIN G

Defending nature with their lives-MARTIN GOODMAN-The Extraordinary Story of India’s #Bishnoi
A free-ranging conversation with the inimitable Terrence McNalley on his 'Free Forum' podcast, around my book MY HEAD FOR A TREE.
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A Curlew, at Bredon Marshes in Great Yarmouth this morning.
Hundreds of avocets, whimbrels, oystercatchers and redshanks too ... the avocets silvering the air in a swarm of flight.

Here's proof! Everything is going to be alright!
As evidence, here's this evening's rainbow over Britain's most easterly point, Lowestoft.

Male Allen’s hummingbird stretching

Allen’s hummingbird stretching. 🪶🌿

My favourite float in today's Lowestoft carnival parade.
The Lowestoft Players and their Jack and the Beanstalk fantasia were good too!

Slowing Down Thoughts on writing by hand, the writing grind, and the iNaturalist app

I went to Austria with a pen and notepad, and came back with these thoughts and a broken foot. My latest substack reflections...
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I was excited by today's visitor to our London garden ... a hummingbird hawkmoth.

Entries for the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize are now open, as of 1st August 2025.

Key dates to enter the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize.

We're delighted to announce that entries for the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize open today!

The winner will receive £10,000 and five runners up £1,000 each. The winning and shortlisted entries will be included in The Nature Chronicles Prize: 3 anthology, published by @saraband-books.bsky.social

My book!
Up for sneak previews!
(Worldwide, for July only)
All attention warmly welcomed.

Yesterday I took the best photo
of a seagull I’ve ever taken.

#Scarborough

Who could take a better one? That's the new cover picture for Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Bravo Dean!

I'm getting into the iNaturalist app. Which is helping me to slow down beside flowers and see what might be inside them.
This is a stevenia deceptoria ... a woodlouse fly. Currently THE sighting in East Anglia.
Who knew?

I'm enjoying having a traditional print paper on a Sheet bday again. This has the looks of good honest journalism.

A beautiful walk around Carlton Marshes ... many butterflies, much birdsong, including this Sedges Warbler singing its heart out

Letting Go Thoughts on leaving homes, people and possessions behind

As I shift countries, homes, people, belongings, prospects, some thoughts: open.substack.com/pub/martingo...

Today at 6 I'll be talking with Miranda Miller about her truly wonderful new novel WHEN I WAS - drawing on a 1950s London childhood. Please book your free ticket now and join us online!
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Speaking of f&%kery ... as of yesterday, the Gulf of Karankawa is just 0.02°C below the record high for the day, set just last year.

The lack of tropical development is allowing warm surface-waters to continue heating.

Will we see a new daily record tomorrow? Stay tuned!

Anti-immigrant government on its deranged mission of hostile environment

Seven swans aswimming ... an unusual North Sea view from our window

Review of My Head For A Tree by Martin Goodman Inkfish Book Reviews

A beautifully clear-eyed review of MY HEAD FOR A TREE and the Bishnois by Kate Horsley in Inkfish Journal
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Envy in the Writer's Heart and why bookstores can be ghastly experiences

Behind that genial, easy-going writer's persona there lurks ...
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Frontispiece featuring three engravings of bees and a leafy border. Captioned 'Frontispiece' and 'T Loveday'.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the bees, for today is their special day! 🐝

This engraved frontispiece by Thomas Loveday is from ‘Melisselogia: Or, the Female Monarchy…’, a book about bees by John Thorley, published in 1744.

📷 Reserve 595.799 THO

#WorldBeeDay #BeeDay #RareBooks

treehugger podcast - my head for a tree My Head for a Tree with Martin Goodman

My first podcast about the Bishnois, their fierce love of trees, and my book MY HEAD FOR A TREE - for the love of trees, please listen.
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The world needs more of this and less of most other things

Back to our London garden, where this vixen hangs out.

Leaving - and Grieving - the USA An English writer packs up his California dream and head back to London

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Meet MY HEAD FOR A TREE in person (it's beautiful!) and hear stories about the Bishnoi, who live the nature-focused life we've forgotten is essential.
Find your community (and me) at the California bookstores on this list.
See you there!
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Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

Desert iguana

Timeline cleanse. Desert iguana hiding in plain sight. 🌿 🦎🐍

Anything But Settled On property searches, Meta's theft, viruses, small annoyances, writer's pay, and three bloody good films

A writer muses - on being unsettled, being in America, viruses, writer’s pay, Meta’s thefts, and three great films.
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