Briefs

GiGL’s New Strategy

GiGL’s New Strategy

We are excited to announce the launch of GiGL’s new 2025–2027 strategy, reaffirming our mission as a social enterprise to collaborate with our community and professional networks to ensure London’s natural environment is understood, protected, improved, and enjoyed for the benefit of all…

Connecting London’s Green Actions

Connecting London’s Green Actions

Widescale nature recovery across the nature-depleted UK is dependent upon improving, joining-up and expanding habitats across the country’s landscapes. London’s urban ecology poses the extra challenge of connecting diverse, fragmented habitats across complex land management and ownership conflicts…

LNRS Interactive Map

LNRS Interactive Map

The London Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS), interactive map is currently live. The GLA and GiGL need Londoners, including GiGLer newsletter readers, to highlight areas which could lead to a specific habitat being better managed, restored or created…

London Day of Nature returns!

London Day of Nature returns!

Early bird tickets for London Day of Nature 2024 are here! Following 2023’s sell-out event, GiGL are back for another day of information and inspiration on Saturday 26th October 2024 at Camley Street Natural Park…

City Nature Challenge 2024

City Nature Challenge 2024

Will you take part in the 2024 City Nature Challenge? Join people in cities around the world in an epic, global mission to record as much wildlife as possible between Friday 26th April – Monday 29th April.

New DiscoverLondon Maps

New DiscoverLondon Maps

These new layers join existing data on wildlife crime, spaces to visit, wildlife sites, rivers and waterbodies, recording support and London’s landscape to make DiscoverLondon a valuable portal for investigating the city’s natural surroundings.

Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is now live

Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is now live

From the 12th February 2024 all major developments (unless exempt) are required to deliver net gains for biodiversity. GiGL has been working on various projects over the last few years in preparation…

London Day of Nature

London Day of Nature

While ‘recording’ remains at the heart of everything GiGL does, we felt it was time to update the event to better reflect the speakers we wish to champion and the community we wish to welcome – namely all those engaging with and working for nature in London…

Water Vole Recovery Programme

Water Vole Recovery Programme

Help us locate remaining water vole populations! As part of GiGL’s work with the London Water Vole Recovery Programme, we have created a short, online recording portal  for the submission of water vole and American mink records.

A (re)-introduction to GAP

A (re)-introduction to GAP

GiGL’s vision is that London’s natural environment is appreciated, understood, considered and improved. To achieve this it’s important that our data and services remain relevant to changing policy and practice priorities. To help achieve this, each  quarter we meet...

10-Minute Walk Map

10-Minute Walk Map

Caledonian Park, a publically accessible greenspace in Islington (© Richard Welpton) We are very pleased to announce that the Greater London Authority (GLA) has published the 10 Minute Walk Map that shows areas that are more than a 10-minute walk from a publicly...

News brief: BE-BOP report published

News brief: BE-BOP report published

We are very pleased to announce that the “Biodiversity Evidence – Better Outcomes from Planning” (BE-BOP) project report has been published. This project was delivered by Greenspace Information for Greater London CIC (GiGL) from October 2019 to September 2020 and was...