Guides/Conservation & Fieldwork

Conservation & Fieldwork guides

Connect field observations, public storytelling, and action on one media spine, without collapsing the systems that serve each job.

GuideField conservation’s two stacksSurvey and Portfolio stay separate contexts. They meet on the same media row through Observation: science tags and public story without merging the stacks.
GuideWhy open standards (Darwin Core)Incompatible in-house schemas blocked collaboration. Aligning to Darwin Core and Camtrap DP is how observations stay combinable, and why one photo can hold many animals.
GuidePublishing sensitive speciesCoordinate generalization is standard practice, and still only a mitigation. Decide what the public panel, map, and downloads may reveal before you publish elevated taxa.
GuideEvidence storytelling for skeptical donorsWhen donors check claims against evidence, specificity and unfinished data beat vague story craft and third-party badges.
GuidePublishing to GBIF: endorsement firstField photos become a DOI-backed dataset under your institution’s name, after GBIF endorses the organization, not the individual photographer.
GuideFundraising for field sitesA public observation can become a funding ask without a second fundraising stack, and the allocation should remain distinguishable from the campaign's headline total.
GuideFrom support to evidence: designing honest attributionRaised is not allocated. Allocated is not completed. Completed is not a verified conservation outcome: design claims that donors can check.
GuideEvents & volunteers for field programsEvents Manager answers who registered. Surveys answer what was detected. Portfolio answers what the public sees: same day, three jobs, one media spine.