Sealed off East Reservoir to become ‘haven for wildlife and people’ with a visitor centre fashioned from a 19th-century coal house
Project delivered by London Wildlife Trust and Hackney Council to receive £120,000 from Mayor’s Big Green Fund
Aquatic diggers will scoop a layer of silt from the bottom of the reservoir to create 13,000 square metres of reedbed
Woodberry Wetlands will help encourage Pochard ducks and Reed Buntings
London Wildlife Trust plans to open up manmade lakes to more people
Responsibility for woodland cemetery site could be transferred to wildlife charity
