Despite being a bustling metropolis, London is blessed with amazing green spaces of all shapes and sizes. Whether a park or common, playing field or a golf course, an allotment or a civic square, open spaces are important to all of London’s residents. They provide...
What is the GiGL data exchange? Curating the GiGL database is a continuous process. We receive new wildlife data from recorders across London, new site surveys occur and result in updated habitat data or new sites designations, and we’re continually working with our...
Laura Kuurne (GiGL Database Officer) and Chloë Smith (GiGL Partnership Manager) This summer has been an exciting time for GiGL as we have been working on a brand new habitat database. Our legacy habitat datasets (we’ve never had a habitat database) have served us, our...
Julie Cox, Data Officer “Environmental data” is a catchall phrase that encompasses a huge range of possibilities. While GiGL’s best-known datasets are our partnership’s biodiversity and open spaces data, we also have access to a range of additional environmental...
Lyndsey Cox, GiGL’s Data Entry Officer GiGL currently holds nearly 2.8 million species records. Whilst I can’t claim to have input all of those records myself, I can lay claim to just over 1.5 million. In recent years, the greatest number of records has come to GiGL...
