Environment & Wildlife

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AllTrails.com is a tool for discovering hiking, biking, and running trails worldwide, providing detailed trail maps, user reviews, and navigation support for outdoor enthusiasts.

Partially Free

Amazonia Socio Ambiental

Amazon rainforest maps and shapefiles of natural protected areas, concessions, indigenous territories, oil, mining, roads, fires, deforestation in bolivia, brazil, colombia, ecuador, guyanas and suriname, peru, venezuela

Free

BirdNet

Identify bird sounds - find bird sounds on a global map.

Free

Brazil CAR - Cadastro Ambiental Rural

CAR is an electronic public register of scope national, mandatory for all rural properties. Cadaster of rural properties that can be explored through their owners.

Free

Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring

Global forecasts of aerosols, c02, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and others.

Free

CryO Tools

Scientific tools for investigating the cryosphere (areas with snow & ice)

Free

Digital Dangers Map (Oxpeckers)

Online environmental crime stories, mapped.

Free

EIA Global Environmental Crime tracker

Map/tracking of environmental crimes including trade in ivory, rhino, big cats, and other exotic animals.

Free

Environmental Justice Atlas

Map of environmental-related conflict globally

Free

Explosive Detonation Velocities

A wikipedia list of detonation velocities of various materials.

Free

FLASH Environment Assessment Tool (UNOCHA)

For identifying harmful substances and their effect on the environment after industry has been destroyed.

Free

The Global Fishing Watch Map is a digital platform for investigating fishing activities worldwide by utilising satellite and AIS data.

Free

It helps to detect changes in forest cover (i.e., to track deforestation), fires, land use, and more. It also includes Global Fire Watch (VIRSS data)

Free

Global Palm Oil Map

Global map of Palm Oil plantations, 2019 (small holders & industrial)

Free

A visual tool to monitor river levels and forecast floods based on AI models developed by Google Research.

Free

Locust Hub (FAO)

A map visualizing locust movements globally

Free

Merlin

Identify birds (visually), through an app.

Free

MineAlert (Oxpeckers)

Mining licenses in South Africa alongside water licenses and the threats to groundwater, mapped

Free

Movebank

Platform for animal tracking data.

Free

Open Water Oil Spill Identification

PDF of US dep of Commerce to assess color/appearance and structure/distribution of oil spilled on the water.

Free

Poach Tracker (Oxpeckers)

Rhino death's across Southern Africa, mapped.

Free

Resource Watch

A nonprofit platform, still in beta, that provides hundreds of data sets on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens. It is sponsored by the World Resources Institute and other organizations.

Free

Rhino Courtcases (Oxpeckers)

Courtcases in Southern Africa related to Rhino poaching, mapped

Free

River Runner Global

Calculate which water stream a drop of rain will follow

Free

Unitar Disaster & Damage Assessment

Unitar satellite imagery & maps of floodings, fires, conflict & internally displaced persons

Free

UNOSAT Analyses is a tool that maps humanitarian emergencies across the globe utilising United Nations Satellite Centre data.

Free

WildMe & WildBook

Open source pattern recognition software to identify unique whales, sharks, zebras, jaguars, skunks, fish and much more.

Free

Wind & Particulate Map

Map that visualizes wind, particulaes, and other data

Free

World Database Protected Areas

The most comprehensive global database on terrestrial and marine protected areas.

Free

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