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...
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...
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...
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...
