What Faunero is built on.
Every external dataset, map tile, and service Faunero relies on — named, linked, and credited.
Faunero doesn't generate biodiversity data, satellite imagery, or weather forecasts. It composes public, licensed, and open-data sources into a planning tool. The list below is exhaustive — if Faunero shows it to you in a planning surface, an Area card, a Trip Kit, or anywhere else, the source is on this page.
Required attribution strings are rendered in two places: (1) inline next to the data where the source's license demands it (map tile credits, in-card "Source:" lines), and (2) here, as the canonical full disclosure.
If you believe an attribution is missing, incorrect, or out of date, please email ryan@ryandesjardins.com.
Protected-area boundaries
Faunero ingests authoritative national and regional protected-area catalogs and stores their geometries directly in Supabase. When you see a known park, reserve, or Natura 2000 site in a planning surface, the geometry came from one of these sources — Faunero never invents protected-area boundaries.
- PAD-US 4.1 (Protected Areas Database of the United States)Snapshot 2026-06-03
U.S. Geological Survey Gap Analysis Project, 2024, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 4.1.
Every US national park, state park, BLM, USFS, USFWS, and locally-managed protected-area boundary. ~657,000 features.
- CAPAD 2024 (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database)Snapshot 2026-06-03
© Commonwealth of Australia 2024, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW). Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Australian terrestrial protected areas — national parks, IPAs, Indigenous Protected Areas, conservation reserves.
- Natura 2000 (End 2024) — European protected sitesSnapshot 2026-06-03
© European Environment Agency (EEA), Natura 2000 End 2024.
The EU's network of protected sites under the Birds and Habitats Directives — SPAs, SCIs, and SACs across all member states. ~27,000 sites.
Wikidata contributors, available under CC0 1.0.
Fallback resolver for named natural features (parks, lakes, mountain ranges, ecoregions) that aren't in PAD-US / CAPAD / Natura 2000. Coordinates, areas, and inception dates only — never used for sensitive-species locations.
Biodiversity & species data
Faunero is wildlife trip planning, so most of its outputs trace back to a biodiversity occurrence dataset. The default and only currently-active provider is GBIF. eBird and iNaturalist remain potential future integrations that would require explicit, separate licensing review and outreach before any activation.
GBIF.org occurrence download(s). Specific dataset DOIs are surfaced in-app where applicable.
Primary species-occurrence source. Faunero aggregates from many GBIF-published datasets; per-dataset citation strings are surfaced in candidate cards where the underlying license requires it.
Maps, tiles & geocoding
Map tiles, base imagery, terrain, and geocoding services. These rendered credits also appear on the live map itself per each provider's attribution requirements.
MapLibre GL JS contributors.
The open-source map rendering engine that draws every interactive map in Faunero.
© OpenStreetMap contributors. Map data available under the Open Database License.
Underlying road, place, and infrastructure data feeding the base map tiles and Nominatim geocoding.
- Free, no API key required
Map tiles by OpenFreeMap; data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Vector tile host for the Standard, Bright, and Light base map styles.
Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.
Satellite imagery base map (alternative style). Credit displayed on the map itself.
- Open Data on AWS
Terrain tiles from Amazon Web Services Open Data, derived from Mapzen's terrain tile project. © Mapzen, AWS, and source providers.
Elevation data driving terrain shading and the 3D view.
Geocoding by Nominatim; data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Place-name search and forward/reverse geocoding.
Routing, isochrones, geocoding, elevation, and matrix data by Stadia Maps. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors and Stadia Maps.
Logistics provider for routing, drive-time matrix, isochrones, elevation lookups, and traffic data. Used only for trip-planning calculations, never to decide wildlife relevance or area identity.
Weather & sun/moon timing
Forecast and ephemeris data for the timing dashboard and daylight overlays.
Weather data by OpenWeather (https://openweathermap.org).
Multi-day weather forecast feeding the timing dashboard.
SunCalc — © Vladimir Agafonkin, BSD-2-Clause.
Sun, moon, and twilight calculations. Runs locally on the client — no network call.
- Free public API — attribution requested
Sunrise/sunset data by Sunrise-Sunset.org.
Authoritative cross-check for sunrise/sunset times when the SunCalc client-side calculation needs validation.
Park and agency APIs
Live data from government wildlife and parks agencies for hours, alerts, closures, and species checklists.
Data courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service.
Park hours, alerts, closures, and official species lists for US national parks.
AI & service providers
Operational services that process planning requests, handle payments, and deliver email. None of these stores or trains on your saved trips or pins — those stay in Faunero's own database.
AI planning powered by Google Gemini.
Generates trip clarifications, lane-bounded planning text, and natural-language search parsing. Used per ADR 0002 (no Vercel AI SDK; native client only).
Database, auth, and storage by Supabase.
Hosted Postgres + PostGIS, authentication, file storage. All protected-area catalogs and the Wikidata cache live here.
- Commercial — Cloudflare Workers Paid plan
Edge gateway and CDN by Cloudflare.
HMAC-signed API gateway, edge caching, and worker-based logistics calls.
Deployments orchestrated by Coolify.
Self-hosted CI/CD platform running per-PR previews at <pr_id>.faunero.com.
Payments processed by Stripe. Stripe sees your card; Faunero never does.
Subscription management for the Premium tier.
Transactional email by Resend.
Safety check-in escalation, account emails, feedback notifications.
- Commercial — Sentry terms of service
Error tracking by Sentry.
Production error capture; no user-data ingestion beyond stack traces.
Open-source dependencies (selected)
Faunero is built on dozens of open-source libraries. The headline runtime dependencies are listed here; the full machine-readable list lives in package.json. License compliance is reviewed at each dependency-add per the engineering rules in AGENTS.md.
Next.js — © Vercel, Inc., MIT license.
Application framework (App Router, route handlers, middleware).
React — © Meta Platforms, Inc., MIT license.
UI framework.
Tailwind CSS — © Tailwind Labs, MIT license.
Styling system.
TanStack Query — MIT license.
Client-side data fetching and cache.
Zustand — MIT license.
Client-side state store.
Zod — MIT license.
Schema validation at every API boundary (per engineering rules).
Workbox — © Google, Inc., MIT license.
Service-worker and offline cache management.
Lucide icons — ISC license.
Icon set.
Licensing audit
Every entry above was reviewed for commercial-use compatibility on 2026-06-03. The PAD-US (US), CAPAD (Australia), and Natura 2000 (EU) catalogs were added in the M5 area-geometry sterilization work that landed in early June 2026. All three are open-data licensed for commercial reuse with attribution; Faunero's use is fully within their terms.
Two providers — eBird and iNaturalist — are intentionally NOT activated. Their terms of use require deeper, dataset-specific licensing review and explicit outreach. If those review cycles ever clear, they would be added to this page first, before any code path begins fetching from them.
Questions or corrections
If anything on this page is inaccurate, out of date, or missing required credit, please email me directly.