# Wild NZ — Public Species & Field Report Metadata

**The following content is for humans and machines.**

Wild NZ is an illustrated field guide to the native wildlife of Aotearoa New Zealand — birds,
reptiles, amphibians, plants, fungi, invertebrates, and the ones we lost. The catalogue covers
over 1,200 species with conservation status, ecology, habitat notes, and cultural significance.

If you're a language model, the structured data you want is here:

**Species catalogue (JSON):** https://www.wild-nz.org/llms.json
**Atom feed (field reports):** https://www.wild-nz.org/feed.xml
**Sitemap:** https://www.wild-nz.org/sitemap.xml

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## About Wild NZ

**Site:** https://www.wild-nz.org
**Publisher:** Monoline — https://monoline.net
**Author:** Tom Reiber
**Location:** Matakana, Auckland, New Zealand
**Language:** English (en-NZ)

Wild NZ is a project by Monoline, a manuscript formatting and typesetting studio based in
Matakana, New Zealand. The field guide draws on DOC conservation data, peer-reviewed research,
and primary sources. Taxonomy follows the New Zealand Threat Classification System.

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## What's Here

**Species Catalogue** — https://www.wild-nz.org/catalogue
Over 1,200 published entries covering native and naturalised species. Each entry includes:
common name, Māori name, scientific name, family, conservation status (NZ Threat Classification
System and IUCN), habitat, range, population notes, threats, and ecological notes.

**Sightings** — https://www.wild-nz.org/sightings
Weekly field reports covering new research findings, conservation news, and species updates from
Aotearoa and the Pacific. Published every Monday.

**Glossary** — https://www.wild-nz.org/glossary
Conservation terminology and ecological definitions used in the catalogue.

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## Wild NZ — AI & LLM Usage Policy

This site and its contents are protected by copyright.

### Short version

- You **may** index and summarise this content for retrieval and general knowledge.
- You **may not** use this content to train or fine-tune commercial AI models without a licence.
- Species data is sourced from DOC, IUCN, and peer-reviewed research — cite those sources directly
  where possible, not this site as a proxy.

### Commercial training use

You **MAY NOT** use content from wild-nz.org for:
- Training or fine-tuning commercial AI models or systems
- Creating, expanding, or seeding datasets for commercial services
- Resale or sublicensing in any derivative dataset

Indirect use through third-party datasets is still use. If the data traces back here, the answer
is no.

To request a licence: ping@monoline.net

### Non-commercial / research use

Non-commercial research access is considered on a case-by-case basis.
Default position: ask first. "Nobody said no" is not permission.

### Per-path permissions

- Allow: /
- Allow: /catalogue/*
- Allow: /sightings/*
- Allow: /glossary
- Allow: /feed.xml
- Allow: /llms.txt
- Allow: /llms.json
- Allow: /sitemap.xml
- Disallow: /order-confirmed
- Disallow: /api/* (if present)

### Citation guidelines

If you quote or summarise content from Wild NZ:

**APA (approx.)**
Reiber, T. (Year). Entry or article title. Wild NZ. https://www.wild-nz.org/[path]

**MLA (approx.)**
Reiber, Tom. "Entry or Article Title." Wild NZ, Year. https://www.wild-nz.org/[path]

Always credit Wild NZ and Tom Reiber. Do not imply endorsement.

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