Volunteer Update

Volunteer Update

The card on the left shows an example of the type of records our species volunteers have been digitising, for species such as Yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis) on the right (©Radu Chibzii) My last GiGLer article in April 2022 introduced the start of GiGL’s...
Ancient Woodland Inventory Volunteers

Ancient Woodland Inventory Volunteers

Over the last 18 months GiGL have been mapping all ancient woodland in Greater London. This work will update Natural England’s Ancient Woodland Inventory (AWI), allowing us to address errors and omissions in the current dataset, and will help us to ensure that all...
Volunteering at GiGL

Volunteering at GiGL

Volunteers have always been a key part of GiGL, whether they’re working hard to help us get through the mountains of data that we receive or participating in large online projects digitising record cards. Volunteers feature as an important branch of GiGL’s network...
Nature at Home

Nature at Home

Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager Stag beetles in garden (c) Sarah Wygas This spring Londoners have helped protect each other by curtailing our daily travels to stop the spread of the coronavirus. This has also, necessarily, affected our trips to visit greenspaces...