Data sources & licences
This site uses five open sources in public output. It does not use a private commercial or affiliate feed. Storage in R2 is never treated as publication permission.
| Dataset | Licence | Commercial use | Derivatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBIF occurrence records Coordinate-bearing Animalia records filtered to CC0 before country, species, month and year aggregation. | CC0 1.0 | Yes | Yes |
| GBIF Backbone Taxonomy Scientific names, stable taxon keys and higher classification. Citation: GBIF Secretariat (2023), DOI 10.15468/39omei. | CC BY 4.0 | Yes | Yes |
| Wikimedia Commons media files Only files with supported public-domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA metadata are displayed. | Item-level open licence The exact licence is linked beside every image. | YesSubject to the file’s attribution terms. | YesShare-alike applies where the file licence requires it. |
Environment Agency flood-monitoring stations
Importer feed: ea-flood-monitoring-stations. Public station identity, river, town, catchment and measurement fields in the approved snapshot. |
Open Government Licence v3.0 | Yes | Yes |
Environment Agency current flood warnings
Importer feed: ea-current-floods. Dated snapshot; the upstream API is beta and the site does not present it as a safety system. |
Open Government Licence v3.0 | Yes | Yes |
Attribution and modifications
GBIF is credited as the occurrence infrastructure, and the GBIF Backbone citation is retained above. Every displayed Commons image identifies the creator where supplied, links its source file and licence, and is labelled as a display-sized rendition. A file with an unsupported licence or incomplete required attribution metadata is withheld rather than published.
Publication boundary
The site publishes derived country- and species-level summaries, not raw occurrence records or exact coordinates. CC BY-NC occurrence records do not contribute to those summaries. Private R2 objects and any unrelated commercial feed remain outside public output. The environment pages publish only the compact allow-listed station and flood projection; NOAA GHCN-Daily and Environment Agency catchment-classification bulk objects are held but not joined.
Unavailable future gates
Review the newly approved habitat and species source coverage →
GBIF occurrence bulk is unavailable for any new location-derived product until a bounded credentialled job, record-level rights and sensitive-location review pass. Copernicus climate bulk is unavailable until credentials and a compact variable/geography projection are approved. See live status on the environment page.
Reviewed layers for better habitat answers
| Layer | Permitted role | Publication gate |
|---|---|---|
| Catalogue of Life | Accepted-name and higher-taxonomy checks alongside the current GBIF Backbone. | Differences stay visible; neither taxonomy proves occurrence. |
| GeoNames | Stable country and settlement identity for place joins. | No habitat or animal-presence inference from a place name. |
| Natural Earth | Small-scale country and regional reference geography. | Not suitable for local habitat boundaries or exact occurrence maps. |
| NOAA GHCN | Historical climate context for broad animal-range explanations. | Requires a qualified station/area fit, visible period and no live-weather claim. |
Catalogue availability does not mean these layers are already used on an animal or country page. A new join must improve the answer, preserve source dates and licences, suppress sensitive locations and pass the existing indexability gate.
See the data and location policy, aggregate evidence ledger, and commercial disclosure.