John Swindells GiGL’s Board of Directors are central to our work and our success. Their commitment and expertise helps guide GiGL and keeps us moving forward and developing. Directors are on the front line of biodiversity and open space work in the capital. They are...
From migrating eels and faecal shields to ‘full frontal newtity’ and figwort weevils, the London recording community continue to find inspiration and joy in everything natural, weird and wonderful. After a year of the world experiencing some of the most hostile...
Digby delivers work for the Community Team as a Data Assistant. He is responsible for updating, maintaining and improving GiGL’s species dataset, as well as being the person to contact if you have species records which you would like to share with GiGL. Town or...
Invasive species in London Lyndsey Cox, GiGL Community Manager Japanese Knotweed creeping towards an east London pavement (Gordon Joly CC BY-SA 2.0) A non-native species is classed as any that didn’t naturally occur before people first arrived in the UK. Non-natives...
Gianfranco Gliozzo, University College London The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment popularised the concept of ‘ecosystem services’; making sure nature is considered in decision-making by measuring and accounting for the benefits it provides to human...
