It collates information about wildlife, parks, nature reserves, gardens and other open spaces, and makes it available to partner organisations and environmental consultants through its website.
Public access to the website is restricted to information not considered sensitive.
It incorporated the Scottish Natural Heritage's WIMBY (What's in my back yard) tool, which allows users to search for species by location.
This was taken down in December 2010, and the database was transferred to GiGL, which launched its iGiGL site in spring 2012.
iGiGL has now been replaced by Discover-London, the online data portal of the capital’s environmental records centre where the public can explore London’s parks, nature reserves, gardens and other open spaces.