Apr 16, 2026
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...
Apr 16, 2026
Joss Carr, from the Biological Recording Company, shares his top tips for getting the most out of City Nature Challenge 2026, a four-day long global bioblitz organised through iNaturalist in which cities around the world compete to see who can document the most...
Mar 19, 2026
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....
Mar 19, 2026
Rodney Burton’s Flora of the London Area was published 43 (1983) years ago this year. In celebration of Rodney’s ecstatically methodical Atlas of London’s Flora and in tribute to his life, GiGL present a brief review of how both the book and the survey continue to...
Jan 22, 2026
Welcome to your six-monthly roundup from the GiGLer newsletter. In this winter edition, we bring you our species recording highlights, GiGL news, recent newsletter features, and a look to what’s coming up in the months ahead. The last half of 2025 was a busy one. For...
