Our work
Biodiversity & research
You cannot protect what nobody has counted.
The dome is spoken about in stories — the leopard someone saw on the ridge, the birds that used to nest along the river, the buck that came back after the last fire. Stories are how a place is loved, but they are not how it is defended. A landowner, a municipality or a court needs records: what lives here, how many, and which way the numbers are moving.
So the work is patient and unglamorous. Species surveys walked on foot. Camera traps set, checked, moved and checked again. Sightings logged with a date and a place instead of a memory. Season after season those entries stack into something no anecdote can do — evidence of what this land holds and what it is losing.
It is also what makes every other front on this list possible. Fire, alien clearing, river testing, landowner agreements: all of them work better when there is a baseline to measure them against.
This front needs backing.
Every one of these eight runs on donations, volunteers and landowners who say yes. If this is the part of the dome you care about, back it.