Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director Welcome to the 9th edition of the GiGLer and the first version of our new ‘iGiGLer’. In this issue, we have moved away from PDF files, a sophisticated way of delivering information back in 2006, to this new web-based format. The new iGiGLer...
Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager GiGL’s flagship report, the ecological desktop study, presents a snapshot of the GiGL Partnership’s knowledge of a site or an area. The report is the culmination of a lot of time and effort to collate information about the whole...
Dave Clark, Ornithologist What a mindblast…Excuse the 60`s vernacular but as a 15 year old impressionable youth, leafing through the Woolies (Woolworth`s) record stack coming across the Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus is a mindblast, especially when you’re sheltering...
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...
Through GiGL’s project to update the Ancient Woodland Inventory for Greater London, we are identifying unrecognised ancient woodland sites (areas that have been continuously wooded since at least 1600 AD) across the capital. By ensuring their inclusion within the...
