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Do you have specific places with green nature or water that you highly appreciate? Day-to-day nature in a park near your home? A mind-blowing nature spot you’ve only visited once?

In our rapidly developing and globalising world many developments – unbeknownst to us – impact on natural areas and green space. Roads and houses are built, agriculture and mining activities claim ever more land, park managers have to make strategic choices on what and what not to preserve, and so on. To make wise decisions in regard to nature, it is essential to have sound and detailed knowledge on how many people appreciate which green and natural areas, and for what reasons. But where to find such knowledge? Furthermore, usually at some point, while development decisions are being taken, it is logical to involve the people who love the natural areas being affected. Since they can then express their opinions, they can give support of some kind or they can co-create. But how to realise this involvement? How can fans of the same area connect to each other? And how can land-owners, policy makers, nature managers, and project developers reach the fans?

We at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have a double mission with Greenmapper. First, we want to strengthen both science and policy with better data on the appreciation of nature. Different from what one may assume, there is insufficient publicly-available data of the sound and detailed kind that is needed. Second, we want to make it easy and normal for fans of areas to be reachable. Our aim is to have 1 million respondents from different countries marking nature places: at local, regional, national, and global levels. 1 million people being reachable as a fan of their areas. Help us in our mission and join in!
We will do the science. And together with our partners we’ll pave the way towards obtaining accurate data on nature appreciation. We’re committed to using new insights gained from respondents to improve the governance of nature areas.

Please note: If you join in, you can enjoy the database of attractive places: you can explore the map and also ask for personal tips for places to visit. And last but not least, Greenmapper is anonymous.


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