Gabriel Hemery

Dr Gabriel Hemery (born 13 December 1968) is an English forest scientist (silvologist) and author.

[10] He was a founding member of the British and Irish Hardwoods Improvement Programme establishing a number of forestry field trials across the UK and Ireland (e.g.[11]).

He gained a DPhil degree at the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford on the genetic improvement of walnut.

[12] His research took him to the walnut fruit forests of Kyrgyzstan where he collected thousands of Juglans regia seeds for field trials back in the UK.

He initiated an agroforestry research project in the mid-1990s, combining free-range broiler chicken with newly established woodland.