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Russell is a arboricultural and ecological consultant and a co-founder of ReNature London (https://renatureldn.uk/).

He has 20 years experience in leading guided walks, nature connection, community engagement, managing volunteers and wildlife photography. He teaches and advises various aspects of arboriculture and ecology including: urban ecology, orchards, veteran trees, tree identification, tree pathology & physiology, decaying wood invertebrates and fungi, bees and other pollinators, and tree establishment.

Russell chaired the Ancient Tree Forum (2016-2021); co-founded and ran Hackney's Tree Musketeers (1999-2021); co-founded and chaired Sustainable Hackney (2008-2016); helped found The Orchard Project (2009); and worked with pioneering Scottish rewilding charity Trees for Life (2000-2018).

Russell is also a political activist campaigning for environmental and social justice. His first career was as a human rights lawyer dealing with miscarriages of justice.

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