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Evidence to action

From scattered Earth data to conservation action.

Biodiversity records, climate reanalysis, land-use pressure and hazard catalogues live on four different platforms in four different formats — so the small organisations doing the actual conservation work rarely get to see them together.

Habitat Sentinel puts them in one workflow: select a habitat, inspect the evidence, place a proposed intervention, measure what it would cover, and export a brief you can hand to a forest department or a funder.

Analyse the Western GhatsChoose another habitat

Opens Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary at a 12 km radius. No account, no API key, no paid tier — every source is public and open.

Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary

19.072, 73.536

Live basemap from OpenFreeMap, recoloured for field use. The dashed ring is the exact polygon sent to GBIF and Overpass.

Four real data sources

Queried live, cached server-side

Data → Evidence → Action

The whole point is the last arrow. Plenty of tools will show you environmental data; far fewer will help you decide what to do about it and measure what your proposal actually covers.

  1. 01 · Data

    Four sources, queried live

    Biodiversity records, climate reanalysis, road and land-cover data, and catalogued hazard events — fetched concurrently for the exact polygon you selected.

  2. 02 · Evidence

    An index you can argue with

    A 35/25/25/15 weighted index where every component shows its inputs, its explanation, its source and its limits. Missing data is excluded, never scored as zero.

  3. 03 · Action

    A proposal you can measure

    Place a restoration zone, crossing candidate or monitoring station, adjust its radius, and read the area, records, threatened taxa and road pressure it would cover — then export the brief.

What this tool supports, and what it does not

Habitat Sentinel supports prioritisation and field validation. It is a transparent planning heuristic, not a scientifically validated ecological assessment: the index has never been calibrated against field outcomes, occurrence records reflect survey effort as much as wildlife, and reanalysis climate describes a 25 km grid cell rather than a valley. Every screen states its limits, every score can be opened to see its inputs, and nothing here replaces a qualified ecologist on the ground.

Start from a known habitat