Biography
Gabriel Hemery is a forest scientist and passionate advocate for trees. He co-founded and is currently Chief Executive of Sylva Foundation, a charity caring for forests across Britain. In 2011–12 Gabriel played a lead role in campaigning to save England's public forests. He regularly contributes to television and radio programmes, and has presented at several literary festivals. His first non-fiction book, The New Sylva, was published to wide acclaim by Bloomsbury.