This is a pretty simple page. <br> Links in the navigation bar lead to other parts of the site, some of which are secure. The boxes below are linked to a variety of web applications and working papers.

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<p>Our goal in the Endangered Species Conservation program is to help improve the implementation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Finding, analyzing, and making available data on ESA-listed species is one way we are working towards that goal.</p><p>This site is our web application development testbed. Feel free to explore the content in this site and give us feedback.</p><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: smaller">Nothing on this site should be construed as representing the positions of <a href="http://defenders.org", target="_blank">Defenders of Wildlife</a>; content here is a work in progress that may be subject to change.</div>

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<p>A selection of our web apps. Those labeled <span class="label label-danger">Restricted</span> are under active research and development; see More &rarr; Contact Us to inquire about access.</p>

Section 7 Explorer

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/open/section7_explorer/

Section 7 of the U.S. Endangered Species Act is often considered the strongest section of the Act. Explore data on all section 7 "consultations" performed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 2008.

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Dynamic Recovery

https://defend-esc-dev.org/dynamic-recovery/index.html

Recovery plans set the criteria for ESA-listed species to be considered recovered and detail the actions needed to achieve those criteria. Traditional recovery plans are written on paper, and most are out-of-date. These are models of how recovery plans could be modernized.

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/closed/esadocs/

Full-text search engine for ESA documents. Includes all Federal Register notices, recovery plans, and 5-year reviews, and a variety of section 7 consultations, HCPs, and other ESA-related documents.

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ESA Listings Summary

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/open/listings-summary/

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provides a table of Endangered Species Act-listed species from their ECOS portal. Explore the same data in graphs and maps to learn more about ESA-listed species.

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ESA Expenditures

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/closed/ESA_expenditures_v0-3/

Conservation takes resources. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service annually reports expenditures on ESA-listed species. Explore reported expenditure data from 2008-2013, estimated at the county level.

Working Lands for Wildlife

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/closed/WLFW_v0-2/

The Natural Resources Conservation Service administers the Working Lands for Wildlife program to provide funding and assistance to private landowners whose land management can help species that are ESA-listed or candidates for listing. Explore WLFW data here!

At-risk Species Explorer

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/open/at-risk_species_v0-1/

A significant number of species are proposed for ESA listing or are candidates. Explore basic information about these imperiled species.

Endangered Species Images

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/closed/EndSp_images_dash/

Having pictures of ESA-listed species should help improve our ability communitcate about their conservation. This will be an app to crowd-source image curation.

Recovery Actions

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/open/recovery_actions/

Recovery plans detail the actions needed to improve a species' status to the point that the ESA's protections are no longer needed. Explore >30,000 actions for 1,178 species.

FWS listing workplan

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/open/listing-workplan/

FWS released their seven-year workplan for evaluating >350 species for listing under the ESA. We extracted the data from their PDF and make it more useable.

ESA 5-year reviews

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/open/fiveyr_review/

The U.S. Endangered Species Act requires a review of the status of listed species once every five years. This is a simple tool to view the timeliness of five-year reviews.

<p>An occasional series of short "papers" discussing our work. "Papers" is quoted because we use these to play with alternative presentation formats.</p>

Section 7 coordinates

https://defend-esc-dev.org/working_papers/coordinates.html

A working document focused on predicting which section 7 consultations have geographic coordinates recorded.

Recovery actions (v1)

https://defend-esc-dev.org/working_papers/recovery_actions_take_1.html

A brief overview of the FWS and NMFS recovery action database, ROAR. Presented in a flex dashboard to see how that works.

Recovery actions (v2)

https://defend-esc-dev.org/working_papers/recovery_actions_take_2.html

Same content as 'Recovery actions (v1)', but in a more 'classic' format.

https://defend-esc-dev.org/working_papers/section7_take.html

A brief overview of 'take' statements recorded in FWS's section 7 database.

Section 10 agreements (v1)

https://defend-esc-dev.org/working_papers/agreements_overview.html

A brief overview of agreements made under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA.

Section 10 agreements (v2)

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/open/section10_flex/

An alternate overview of agreements made under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA. Created by Mike Evans, the new Conservation Data Specialist in ESC.

Critical habitat changes

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/open/CH_changes_v0-1/

An initial examination of how habitat types changed in designated critical habitat for 42 species, 2001-2011.

Recovery plan times

https://defend-esc-dev.org/working_papers/recovery_plan_analysis.html

An overview of how many species have recovery plans, how long planning took, and the age of current plans.

<p>A set of small Shiny apps that provide a single, focused service, to be used as embeds (iframes) in non-Shiny webpages/sites.</p>

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/microapps/sec7_comp/

Three basic bargraphs of section 7 data, with a link to the Section 7 Explorer app. Species selection is specified as a query string in the URL.

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/microapps/gbif_map_comp/

A very basic Leaflet map with occurrence records from GBIF. Species selection is specified as a query string in the URL.

Threats & demography

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/microapps/threats_demo/

A microapp illustrating how threat status and demographic status of imperiled species could be displayed.

Threats relative importance

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/microapps/threats_relative/

A microapp illustrating how the relative importance of threats could be gathered and displayed.

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/microapps/ROAR_table/

A microapp displaying a table of recover actions from FWS's ROAR. Species selection is specified as a query string in the URL.

ESA Policy Annotations

<p>A section for group annotations of proposed ESA policies using <a href="https://hypothes.is">Hypothes.is</a>. At the moment, annotations require using the Chrome plugin for Hypothes.is; see <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek">here</a>.</p>

HCP Handbook Revisions

https://defend-esc-dev.org/shiny/closed/pdfs/HCP_handbook_rev.pdf

FWS and NMFS have drafted an update to their HCP handbook. This copy of the draft revised handbook is set up for annotation.