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Greenspace Information for Greater London (GiGL) is the capital's environmental records centre - we collate, manage and make available detailed information on London's wildlife, parks, nature reserves, gardens and other open spaces

Explore the datasets that form the backbone of GiGL. Find out how we collect and manage data.

 

 

Get involved in recording and contributing biological data.

 

GiGL runs an ecological data search service on areas within Greater London which is mostly used by consultants.

View maps: These maps offer another, more interactive, way of exploring GiGL data and telling us what you’ve seen.

 

The atlas is now available online here, click to read more about London's herpetofauna and download species and habitat maps.

GiGL News

Image of the week - Terrific trees

Sessile Oak, Croham Hurst (c) Mathew Frith

 London is in love with trees this week.  From 11th to 18th May you can learn to identify trees, hear woodland birdsong, survey tree health, walk in the woods and take part in many other tree related events.  It is the GLA's London Tree Week, a series of events and activities to celebrate the capital's trees and woodland. 

East London's Whitechapel Gallery also has a sylvan focus.  Guiseppe Penone's stunning Spazio di luce (Space for light) installation is a 12 metre bronze cast of a tree reclining on the gallery floor, its hollow centre painted with gold leaf.  This week and on into June the gallery are hosting tree related events, including an urban ecology walk and tree art workshops.

Here at GiGL, we also recognise the ongoing importance of trees and woodland to London's ecology and people.  We work with a number of tree focused partners, including the Forestry Commission.  The habitat and species data we manage includes many records of tree species, woodland and orchards.  We are also building up a shared dataset of street tree and park tree information supplied by, and for, London Boroughs and major land owners.  Read some more about our work on tree datasets in an article from early last year here.


iGiGL Launched!


GiGL are pleased to announce the launch of iGiGL, a new website which allows you to find out about publicly accessible wildlife sites and open spaces in the capital.

Discover where to find wildlife sites, parks and open spaces and learn about their history and reported wildlife. The website also gives information to help plan your visit, including site opening times.

For a quick start guide click here.

iGiGL has been developed with funding from the Greater London Authority and Environment Agency. It replaces and updates the GLA's Wildweb and Your London websites. Further development is planned to provide additional services to GiGL partners and will include adding more datasets, a log-in dataset download facility and other functionality. Watch this space!

We hope you enjoy using iGiGL and find it a useful resource.


May 24, 2013