February 14th, 2024
New Feature
In this update, we are announcing two new improvements for the management of Projects:
The new landownership category for Projects
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.
January 25th, 2024
New Feature
Improved
🔗 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.
August 3rd, 2023
New Feature
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.
July 17th, 2023
New Feature
Are you using certification standards for your nature-based project?
You can now add them to your project profile’s home tab.
Learn how to add certifications to your project here.
November 23rd, 2022
New Feature
With Stakeholder Categories it is now possible to create categories and assign them to your project’s stakeholders. This makes it easier to manage and organize your staleholders and also give visitors the possiblility to filter stakeholders by category.
Learn how to create and assign stakeholder categories here.
November 11th, 2022
New Feature
If you are managing a Landscape Project, your Subprojects will now automatically propagate their News Posts to Your LP profile’s news section.
In the landscape project’s News section, each propagated News Post has an indication of which project it belongs to.
And on the landscape project’s map an icon will indicate how many News Posts a subproject has, if any.
Find out more here.