Data sources & licences
This site uses three open sources in public output. It does not use an Australian government property dataset or 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. |
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. See the data and location policy and aggregate evidence ledger.