Martina Girvan

Trustee

Martina is a Chartered Ecologist with over 25 years experience. Her background is in botany and soils and biodiversity and ecosystems. Through her career she has advocated for and delivered strategies and design to benefit biodiversity as well as confer climate and social resilience, demonstrating biodiversity and environmental net gain.

She manages ecologists and arboriculturists and has delivered large scale masterplanning, detailed habitat design and Landuse and Ecological Management Plans for residential, commercial, transport and energy related schemes. She has also delivered many biodiversity audits, action and management plans for projects, gardens, parks and cemeteries. Her vision is a future when the benefits of biodiversity are centred within development and land management and the opportunity to enjoy these benefits is available to all.

Abney Park is a fabulous example of a place that provides cultural, spiritual, recreational, educational, social and biodiversity benefits as well as contributing to better air quality and climate resilience. Abney is a magical place where biodiversity and cultural heritage co-exist and Martina is excited to have the opportunity to support the park and the Trust to maintain and maximise these benefits that are so important to a local and increasingly global community.