London is constantly developing. With Biodiversity Net Gain, future developments will hopefully also benefit nature (A view over Croydon from Addington Hills, Geoff Henson CC BY-ND 2.0) Planning has a very important part to play in helping to protect and restore...
Tom Hunt, ALERC, & Rosie Whicheloe, The Ecology Consultancy The Chartered Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) requires its members to share data with Local Environmental Records Centres. Yet in many cases this is not happening. Should...
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...
Biodiversity net gain (BNG) is an approach which aims to leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than beforehand. Under the Environment Act 2021, all planning permissions granted in England (with a few exemptions) except for small sites will have to...
In London you can find a wide range of habitat types, like those shown here over Walthamstow and Leyton marshes. Classifying and mapping these habitats is no easy task (Russ Garrett CC BY-SA 4.0) Converting to UKHab From swathes of grassland and woodland in parks and...
