What's new

With this new feature it is now possible to propagate your project’s news to your organization profile.

To find out more about how to use the Organization News propagation, read the article on our Help Desk: https://help.explorer.land/help/articles/3721699-organization-news-propagation

With Thematic Layers, explorer.land can provide more information about the project context and its impact. Any relevant global data layer can now be integrated and presented within the Project map so that everyone can have access to more data-driven transparency.

New improvements to the thematic layers:

• Search bar by layer name

• New search filter by country

• New layer categories

• Custom default layers on project level

To find out more about how to use the Thematic Layers, please read the article on our Help Desk: https://help.explorer.land/help/articles/1285166-thematic-layers

Or read our blog article on the importance of Thematic Layers: https://openforests.com/media/articles/thematic-data-layers-impact-reporting/

The footprint propagation can be used to show a site of your project, e.g. the exact limits or a more diffuse area of influence of your project on the map of a linked Organization and/or Landscape Project.

To find out more on how to activate and use Footprint Propagation, please read the article on our Help Desk: https://help.explorer.land/help/articles/6767722-footprint-propagation

In this update, we are announcing two new improvements for the management of Projects:

1. The new landownership category for Projects

2. The new Site area field

User Dashboard News

🏷️ Landownership types for Projects

Enhance your project classification with our newest Project category: landownership type. Currently, there are four options available:

• Private

• Public

• Collective/Communal

• Other

This addition helps you refine your listings and enables users to tailor their searches more effectively based on their preferences.

💡 Missing an entry? Let us know which entry might be missing in this list.

📐Site area

A new field is now available for all Site entries with one or more polygons, showing its total area in ha.

🔗 The new URL copy button for more sharing flexibility

We've added a new URL-Copy Button to explorer.land's sharing function. This allows you to copy the URL of any content with a click and paste it wherever you want to share it.
Quick and simple!

User Dashboard News

👥 Ownership transfer

We've made managing your Organizations and Projects on explorer.land more flexible. You can now seamlessly transfer ownership rights to another member within your Organization or Project. This update provides an easy way to ensure continuous management and collaboration. Experience effortless team transitions today!

💡 How: In your user dashboard, 🧭 navigate to the Organization or Project list, select the Organization or Project you own and want to transfer to another member. Select the dropdown menu on the bottom right and select 'Transfer Ownership.' A popup opens. Select the member you want to transfer the ownership to. Confirm by clicking on 🆗. The new owner will be informed by email.

This new section on explorer.land allows visitors and potential funders to find Projects in need of funding. As an Organization with projects on explorer.land, you are able to create and publish Funding Opportunities for your Projects.

Funding types available:

• Sponsorship

• Donation

• Investment

• Carbon credits

• Biodiversity credits

The Funding Opportunities section

To access the Funding Opportunities section, click on FUND on the top left of the explorer.land landing page or follow this link: https://explorer.land/x/funding

Create a Funding Opportunity

To create a Funding Opportunity for one of your projects go to the Funding Opportunities settings on the left side menu column of your organization profiles dashboard.

To find out more about Funding Opportunities read our Help Desk article: https://help.explorer.land/help/articles/5394467-funding-opportunities

With this improvement it is now possible to assign more than one country to your project. This allows you to showcase multicountry projects and also have your project be filtered by those countries in the explorer.land project search.

You can set the countries when creating a project or in your project’s dashboard under the Geography settings.

Micro-Sites Campaigns (MSC) is a feature on explorer.land that provides a tangible way to connect individual contributions or purchases to specific, verifiable impact on the ground by allowing you to assign unique IDs and URLs to numerous individual land plots (represented as polygons) within a larger area of your project.

Key characteristics include:

• Unique Access: Each "Micro-Site" gets its own unique URL or QR code.

• Target Audience: These URLs can be given to specific clients, product buyers, or campaign participants.

• Visualization: Recipients can use the link to view their specific plot on the explorer.land map, seeing exactly where it is located within the context of the overall project.

Essentially, it enables personalized digital connection to specific small pieces of land within a broader conservation or forestry project.

Micro-Sites Campaigns Management tool

The tool lets organizations manage thousands of individual plots. Instead of just showing a map, you are creating a structured campaign event with:

• Status Management: You can set campaigns to "Active," "In Preparation," or "Concluded," allowing you to time launches with marketing pushes.

• Custom Branding: Each campaign can have its own visual identity with custom marker designs, polygon colors, and logos. This ensures the end-user sees the brand or sponsor associated with that specific restoration effort.

• Batch Management: You can activate specific numbers of micro-sites at a time (e.g., activating 500 plots for a specific corporate partner) and generate CSV files containing unique URLs for distribution.

Examples

The core value proposition is traceability and personalization. Organizations use this to prove that a specific action (like buying a product) led or will lead to a specific result (protecting a specific plot of land). Sample link

1. Product Tying (Buy One, Plant One)

• Scenario: A coffee brand wants to plant a tree or restore a square meter of forest for every bag of coffee sold.

• Mechanism: The brand starts a "Micro-Sites Campaign" for a restoration project. They create 10,000 unique URLs. They print a QR code on each coffee bag.

• User Experience: The customer scans the bag and is taken to their specific square meter of coffee forest. They see the exact location, not just a generic project page.

2. Corporate Gifting & CSR

• Scenario: A tech company wants to give a sustainable gift to employees or conference attendees.

• Mechanism: Instead of a merchandise product, they purchase 500 micro-sites. They email a unique link to each attendee.

• User Experience: The attendee clicks the link and sees "Their" plot. The map marker can even be branded with the tech company's logo, reinforcing the connection between the employer and the positive impact.

3. Adopting a Piece of Nature

• Scenario: A conservation NGO wants to move beyond generic donations.

• Mechanism: They launch a campaign where donors can "adopt" a specific patch of restoration land.

• User Experience: The donor receives a digital certificate with a link to their specific plot. They can visit the link anytime to see the project's progress updates (via the main project page context), feeling a continued sense of ownership and connection to that specific location.

Learn how to use Micro-Sites Campaigns here.