Periyar Tiger Reserve, a trendsetter in converting poachers to protectors india.mongabay.com/2020/03/peri....

A fine message from Calicut

Sunrise from the biopark in Calicut, Kerala, India. Just in case your day needs a little sun.

Kozikhode is India’s first UNESCO city of literature, holds a great book festival, where a man throws scraps of meat to attract a skyful of mighty magnifient birds, and it’s not a bad place at all to hang out in January. open.substack.com/pub/martingo...

Nature waits, then wins. Here's a shrub, working its roots down through the roof of a building in Kerala, India.

Some quiet and steady thoughts from the start of my year open.substack.com/pub/martingo...

Miranda Miller's WHEN I WAS is, so deservedly, a Writers Review BOOK OF THE YEAR, chosen by Leslie Wilson: "Engaging, perceptive and compassionate, this is a novel that’s hard to put down": reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...

We have a thriving bat population in Hackney too... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...

So happy to have the Bohemian Waxwings back for the winter. Here’s one eyeing the fruit of a Russian Olive tree #birds 🌿

Sigh. We're getting a heat pump and solar panels installed in our Victorian terrace. Good for the planet, but the only way the costings make sense is the addition of batteries - which can also mean the UK not paying to turn off wind turbines at night. BAD MOVE! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

La Nina years are typically drought years here in Santa Barbara. So far this 'water year' we have already received our annual average, with the two historically wettest months still ahead. Every 'normal' is flipping upside down and inside out.

For #internationalcelloday, a wee mention for my novel THE CELLIST OF DACHAU --- 25 years in the writing. Please try a sample and see if it engages you. www.amazon.com/Cellist-Dach...

In my Bishnoi book, MY HEAD FOR A TREE, I met a doctor who is intent not so much on planting trees but in creating tree planters ... that human connection with trees. It was sweet to find a similar plan at work in London's Hackney today.

Some views on an ageing century, times achanging, and from the Royal Box open.substack.com/pub/martingo...

Here's a fabulous new posting from CONSERVATION TIMES about one of India's great rivers. www.econservationtimes.com/ecosystems/m...

Spain’s marine protected areas (MPAs) are still being decimated by bottom trawling. We took legal action last year but Spain has issued more fishing licenses for bottom trawling inside these MPAs since then. So we’re going back to court with @oceanaeurope.bsky.social to protect these zones.

A letter from Marbella ... open.substack.com/pub/martingo...

THE BOY ON THE TRAIN IS OUT NOW!! 🧑🏻‍💻🏭🚅 @martingoodman.bsky.social ​ Silently, digitally, a boy takes apart your family. What would you do to save everything? ​ Available now in paperback and eBook! 📕 👉 barbicanpress.com/book/the-boy... 🌍 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1917352077 🌎 www.amazon.com/dp/1917352077

Some thoughts about opposition! @bsky.app open.substack.com/pub/martingo...

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. conta.cc/46Qu2O1 @profilebooks.bsky.social @greystonebooks.bsky.social

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.

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!

I went to Austria with a pen and notepad, and came back with these thoughts and a broken foot. My latest substack reflections... open.substack.com/pub/martingo...

I was excited by today's visitor to our London garden ... a hummingbird hawkmoth.

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

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

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! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/miranda-mi...

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

A beautifully clear-eyed review of MY HEAD FOR A TREE and the Bishnois by Kate Horsley in Inkfish Journal inkfishmag.com/my-head-for-...

Behind that genial, easy-going writer's persona there lurks ... open.substack.com/pub/martingo...

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

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. www.treehuggerpod.com/episodes/my-... @greystonebooks.bsky.social @profilebooks.bsky.social

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

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

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! www.bishnoism.org/2025/02/book...

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

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

A writer muses - on being unsettled, being in America, viruses, writer’s pay, Meta’s thefts, and three great films. open.substack.com/pub/martingo...