Water Vole Recovery Programme

Water Vole Recovery Programme

Help us locate remaining water vole populations! Water vole; photo by Craig Jones Wildlife Photography As part of GiGL’s work with the London Water Vole Recovery Programme, we have created a short, online recording portal  for the submission of water vole and...
Joy of Recording – Lesnes Abbey Woods

Joy of Recording – Lesnes Abbey Woods

The ruins of Lesnes Abbey (© Drone pilot Jonathan Potts Director Dagmar Scheibenreif) Lesnes Abbey Woods, Bexley, is a hidden treasure in the heart of suburban London. Containing the remains of Lesnes Abbey, founded in 1178, the wood includes a diversity of wildlife...
A Fantastic Fungi: new species to science

A Fantastic Fungi: new species to science

By Andy Overall Andy is the well respected mycologist behind “Fungi to be With” which is dedicated to connecting the Greater London public to the natural environment through the magical world of fungi. During the autumn of 2018 I was part of an ongoing...
Joy of Recording: fourteen years of data

Joy of Recording: fourteen years of data

Tony Wileman My desire for identifying wildlife started at a very young age, sometime between five and seven, when it was usual for me to be found crawling under school huts. A lot of my childhood was spent crawling around looking at invertebrates in my local park in...
Joy of Recording

Joy of Recording

Richard Bullock, WWT Biodiversity Officer The importance of wildlife recording first dawned on me in my late teens. During the early 1980s, I volunteered, at a Shropshire site called Stoneyhill, to look for three species of clubmoss ferns. Remarkably, they included...