Biodiversity Around My Home: the free map of species within your 5 km

<Biodiversity Around My Home> is a free tool from the <iLoveNatura> platform by 3Bee. Enter any address and within seconds you get a snapshot of nature within a 5 km radius.

The tool aggregates data from open scientific sources: iNaturalist for species observations, IUCN Red List for conservation status, CORINE Land Cover by Copernicus for land use, and GBIF for biogeographical occurrences.

Once the area is loaded, you find three things: the species inventory with Flora and Fauna filters, sub-filters for taxa, text search, and a grid with photos and IUCN status; the biodiversity indices calculated on the observed data; an interactive map of observations with clusters and a detail drawer for each species, including a heatmap.

Alongside the MSA index, the tool calculates the classic diversity indices of ecology: Shannon, Simpson, and Evenness. These are numbers that indicate how much and how species are distributed in the area, and they only make sense when read together: for example, a high Shannon value with low Evenness signals an area that is rich but dominated by a few species.

Each index is segmented into three categories: native, alien, and endemic species. Knowing how much of the diversity we measure is due to introduced species completely changes the ecological interpretation of the territory.

There is also a graph dedicated to the conservation status according to the IUCN Red List: percentages of species that are critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened, of least concern, and with insufficient data. For each species, the detail drawer shows photos, classification, a possible link to iNaturalist, and a heatmap of observations: useful both in the office and in the field.