London’s priority species are those species we share our city with that are national priorities for conservation and those that are believed to be declining in London or beyond. Species on the London Priority Species List (LPSL) meet one or more criteria to indicate...
Richard Bullock, WWT Biodiversity Officer The importance of wildlife recording first dawned on me in my late teens. During the early 1980s, I volunteered, at a Shropshire site called Stoneyhill, to look for three species of clubmoss ferns. Remarkably, they included...
Thames Valley may be ahead of the game in third generation data modelling, but London is not far behind. Nick White of the London Biodiversity Partnership explains how the same opportunity mapping techniques could help target action in London. In 2007, the London...
Ian Woodward, GiGL Royal Parks Officer The accuracy of the records we hold is essential. Our partners and other GiGL data users often base planning and conservation decisions on our data, and prioritise their work accordingly.They rely on the accuracy of that data to...
Matt Davies, GiGL’s Data Manager, on the mass-communication possibilities afforded by GiGL’s expanding data holdings. In recent years GiGL has greatly increased its data holding, which now include over 3/4 million species and 75,000 habitat records, as well as...
