Docs Environmental
Habitats
Map the wetlands, nest boxes, hedgerows, and other places wildlife depends on, and link them to the species that use them.
A habitat is a place: a pond, a naturalized rough, a bat box on the maintenance building. Mapping habitats gives your sightings context and gives stewardship work an address.
Create a habitat
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Open Habitats in the toolbar and click the add button.
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Name it and pick how to place it: drop a point, draw an area, or link an area you already mapped in Area Manager. Linked areas stay in sync, so redrawing the area in Area Manager updates the habitat too.
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Link the species that use it, add notes, tags, and photos, and save.
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Open Habitats in the toolbar and tap the add button.
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Name it, place it with a point or a drawn area, or link an Area Manager area.
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Add species links, photos, and notes, then save.
The habitat page
Open a habitat to see its map shape, photos, linked species, sighting count inside it, resident tracked individuals, and any projects running there. Sightings and residents are tappable, so you can jump straight from a habitat to the records inside it.
Duplicate, archive
- Duplicate copies a habitat’s setup as a starting point for a similar one, named with “copy” so you spot it.
- Archive retires a habitat that no longer exists, like a pond that was filled. Archived habitats keep their history and stop painting on the map. Archiving is how a habitat is deleted; there is no hard delete, so the record survives.