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....
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...
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...
GiGL is proud to announce that we have been awarded the John Sawyer NBN Open Data Award 2025, presented annually by the National Biodiversity Network Trust (NBN) at their conference. It is awarded to those making a valuable contribution to open biodiversity data in...
This autumn marks the launch of the first-ever pan-London survey for the German hairy snail (Pseudotrichia rubiginosa), a small, little-known land snail that could tell us a lot about the health of the capital’s wetlands and river corridors. Led by Citizen Zoo and the...
