Leanne Tough, MRes Ecology, Evolution and Conservation student at Imperial College London, and Phoebe Shaw Stewart, Junior Conservation Biologist at ZSL Citizen scientists search for invertebrates as part of the Riverfly Monitoring Initiative It was over six years ago...
Katharine Davies, GiGL Community Officer The Zooniverse project to transcribe historic London Bird Records collected by the London Natural History Society (LNHS) was launched at the end of April 2018. The LNHS has been a long term partner of GiGL; they have been...
Joe Pecorelli, Zoological Society of London I’m pleased to write that my article on ZSL’s European eel monitoring project for the GiGLer in December 2012 successfully attracted new partners and volunteers to the project. I’m hopeful this article might do the same for...
Chloë Smith, GiGL Data Officer & Mandy Rudd, GiGL Chief Executive Citizen science is not new. The Guide to Citizen Science (2012), a joint publication between the Biological Records Centre (part of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and the Natural History...
Eleanor Reast, RSPB Why study the ubiquitous Cockney sparrow? House sparrows are no longer ubiquitous. Both rural and urban populations in the UK have shown a severe decline. In London numbers fell by a shocking 68% between 1994 and 2000. The drop in numbers has been...
