Wildlife Loggery building next to the River

We are helping the fantastic community group of The Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston to create Loggeries along the River Lea river bank

These loggeries provide a refuge for small mammals, grass snakes and toads on Hackney Marshes. They have already seen a positive impact on wood mice on the Marshes and we will be commissioning a small mammal survey in the summer to understand with greater certainty what is needed to provide the best habitat for wildlife.

The loggeries involve driving in stakes, digging a hollow for small mammals, constructing a heavy hibernaculum from logs, covering this in woodchip and then wrapping in stock-proof fencing wire - multiple jobs for people to experience.

Meeting Gideon by the Hackney Marshes pavilion who will have all the materials needed to build the Loggery on the day.