§ Architecture
A node, not a silo.
UHELP is a Clarifico Node. Our data stays on our infrastructure. The Laukahi network queries us through a documented manifest — nothing more, nothing less. Federated, not centralized.
/api/manifest →UH Ecosystems & Landcare Program · Node of the Laukahi Network
Working knowledge
for thriving ʻāina.
A living archive of what Hawaiian conservation and watershed practitioners have learned, tried, and passed forward — organized around the organisms and threats you work with. Every record carries its source.
The node · by the numbers
§ Sources · open data, provenance intact
community observations
iNaturalist
56,576 records
museum + research records
GBIF
63,841 records
ahupuaʻa boundaries
HI Statewide GIS
727 ahupuaʻa
species descriptions
Wikipedia
CC BY-SA
practitioner knowledge
UHELP curation
22 records
Every fact is tagged by origin. Where two sources agree, we mark it corroborated; where they diverge, we show both.
§ Spatial · the living map
The living map of
Hawaiian biodiversity.
727 ahupuaʻa, each shaded by the species documented within it. Green is presence; ember is a hotspot. Hover to explore, click to open.
Species documented
060+
§ Provenance
Every fact
carries its source.
Occurrences from iNaturalist and GBIF, boundaries from the Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS, descriptions from Wikipedia, treatments from practitioners — each labeled by where it came from.
Browse the archive →