Jul 1, 2007
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...
Jul 1, 2006
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...
Jul 1, 2006
Matt Davies and Lauren Alexander, GiGL’s data team, give an overview of GiGL’s data holdings and the process of inputting and extracting information from the database. GiGL may be ten years old, but the records that GiGL holds cover a much broader time span, dating...
Jul 1, 2006
Alison Fure, Furesfen Ecological Consultancy. Not many consultants pass records on to biodiversity records centres, although it is in the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management’s code of conduct to do so. I always ask and some clients are pleased to allow...
Feb 1, 2006
Alison Johnson, Atkins & Rebecca Smith, Metronet Rail Alison Johnson of Atkins & Rebecca Smith of Metronet Rail explain GiGL’s fledgling relationship with Metronet – perhaps one of GiGL’s less obvious partners. The London Underground network may not be the...
