Park it

Claudia Watts, GiGL Royal Parks Officer The Royal Parks cover approximately 5,000 acres, making an enormously important contribution to open space and wildlife habitats in the capital. Such a wide area means that there is a lot of wildlife to be recorded. The Royal...
Come on GiGL, Light My Fire

Come on GiGL, Light My Fire

Tanya Broadfield, London Fire Brigade Environment Adviser GiGL works with the great and the good in London conservation and development. But the services that GiGL provides are of use to more organisations than you might expect. One of GiGL’s less obvious partners...

Where are our wastelands?

Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director ‘Imagine you are walking through a field in summer. You might think you were in the heart of the country, but you could equally be in the middle of London where urban wastelands … previously developed land that has been abandoned by people...

Not just the birds and the bees

GiGL has been working with the GLA since long before either organisation existed. John Archer, Principal Policy Officer at the GLA and GiGL’s steering group chair explains. The London Ecology Unit, which was later absorbed into the GLA, was one of the key...