Publications

Internal Publications GiGL Annual Report 2022/23 Our public facing annual report for the 2022/23 financial year. Download the annual report here: GiGL species, sites, and communication stats from the 2022/23 financial year: GiGL Annual Report 2021/22 Our public facing...
Winter Editorial Issue 34

Winter Editorial Issue 34

(C) Becky Garden Welcome to the 34th Issue of the GiGLer. As with every editorial, this one is bursting with news from the last 6 months, from the launch of the London Day of Nature to the latest in all things planning and policy. Before we dive into the usual recap,...
Ancient Woodland Inventory Volunteers

Ancient Woodland Inventory Volunteers

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...
Open Data

Open Data

The open data movement is inspiring and exciting, but for it to work for the environmental data sector it needs long-term and significant investment in our local, regional and national data infrastructure The Open Data Institute (ODI) defines open data as “data that...

Natural Environment Data in Planning

A project by the Mayor of London in 2016 found that 18% of planning applications in London should have been supported by a GiGL data search report but only 1% was. Stats published by GiGL since (see the figures in our map), show that these figures are still very low...