Abney Park was the first statutory Local Nature Reserve to be designated in Hackney. The site offers the visitor a wealth of ecological riches that are unusual so close to the centre of London.
Watch a talk by Russell Miller on the ecology of Abney Park Nature Reserve
Biography: Russell Miller
Russell is an arboricultural and ecological consultant. He specialises in veteran trees together with the fungi and invertebrates they support. He has written two papers for the London Naturalist about Abney, as well as Abney's veteran tree management plan. He has studied trees and wildlife at Abney for 25 years and wrote his MSc thesis on Abney's nationally important decaying wood invertebrates. He teaches about trees, ecology and connecting with nature. He also leads guided walks and is a wildlife photographer.
