In this winter edition, we bring you our species recording highlights, GiGL news, recent newsletter features, and a look to what’s coming up in the months ahead. The last half of 2025 was a busy one. For the GiGL team, this meant knuckling down to upload vast numbers of records, enhancing our services, and attending events and conferences…
The importance of sharing newly acquired species and habitat data lies with the value of their re-use. These data are usually used once for the particular planning application and then lost in reports within the planning portal. Whereas if they are shared, they can be re-used to enable informed decisions for future projects…
London’s trees are more than just green spaces, they are essential infrastructure. They cool our streets, filter our air, manage stormwater, and provide habitats for countless species. Yet the climate these trees were planted for is changing faster than ever before…
Pseudotrichia rubiginosa is a rare non-marine snail that clings to damp riverside vegetation and wetland margins. Despite its modest size, it has an intriguing backstory – with scattered records across the Thames and a long history of being overlooked in biodiversity surveys…
Over the past nine years, Buglife has been busily mapping a network of Important Invertebrate Areas (IIAs) for Great Britain. Each of the 100+ IIAs is home to nationally or internationally important invertebrate populations…
As a local government ecologist, I’m committed to finding ways and means to help the public provide the ecological records that make their lives, and the lives of the wildlife they value, a little bit better, and secure it for future generations to see, enjoy – and of course record as well…
Pollinators thrive when we give them the basics: food, shelter and space. London’s pollinators are resilient, but they need our help. Every patch of green matters. Together, we can make sure the city remains a place where both people and pollinators flourish…
The story of how these marvellous beetles came to represent almost 0.5% of our total species database today spans the history of GiGL, embodies the strong professional and personal bonds that tie GiGL and the Trust together and is testament to Mathew Frith’s commitment to both London’s wildlife and its people…
This article explores the insights we can produce by combining the environmental data that GiGL hold with datasets from other organisations and platforms. We’ll showcase some mapping and analysis we’ve done in the past, from demographics to geology, gardens, and beyond…