Still GiGLing: 30 Years of Nature Data, People and Persistence

Still GiGLing: 30 Years of Nature Data, People and Persistence

2026 is a year of significant anniversaries for us here at GiGL Towers. We launched as a hosted local environmental records centre 20 years ago, having spent two years in a development phase with a clear goal of established diversified and sustainable revenue streams...
Seeing Small: Bugs, Data, and Making It All Make Sense

Seeing Small: Bugs, Data, and Making It All Make Sense

Penny is a graphic designer, insect surveyor, and macro photographer, but in practice, those things all come together through her love of biological recording – paying close attention to what’s living around us and turning that into something useful. Most people don’t...
Recording Chiswick’s Wildlife – Why Urban Species Surveys Matter

Recording Chiswick’s Wildlife – Why Urban Species Surveys Matter

Joanne Gilbert is founder and chair of WildChiswick. The not-for-profit community group was established in 2021 with the aims of making residents aware of the wildlife around them and why other species are important for biodiversity. They encourage people to protect...
The Butterflies of London

The Butterflies of London

I’m Leslie Williams, a Recorder for butterflies serving in a volunteer role with the London Natural History Society (LNHS). The Society has recently published ‘The Butterflies of London’, a book that maps the distribution of each butterfly species in Greater London....