Show & Tell: Stag Beetle Forms

Show & Tell: Stag Beetle Forms

Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager For several years now, one of our most reliable signs of spring at GiGL has been the trickle of stag beetle records sent via our website. The first records in March and April herald the upcoming busy season of stag beetle spotting...
Interview, Mathew Frith

Interview, Mathew Frith

Mathew Frith GiGL’s Board of Directors are central to our work and our success. Their commitment and expertise helps guide GiGL and keeps us moving forward and developing. Directors are on the front line of biodiversity and open space work in the capital. They are...
Olympic Summer

Olympic Summer

Girish Rambaran, London Wildlife Trust Olympics Legacy Manager London Wildlife Trust has been a ‘critical friend’ of London 2012 since the Games were at the bid stage in 2004. We recognised that to not have a voice in the largest urban park development in the UK for...

Tales from the riverbank

Alex Draper, London Wildlife Trust The water vole is a UK priority species for biodiversity conservation. Its presence on a site is a material consideration in planning applications, and under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) it is an offence to damage burrows...