Regenerated biodiversity and a month filter in the gallery

In the Regeneration section's gallery we have added a second dropdown next to the sort control, letting you filter photos and videos by month. Every entry in the list shows the month name together with the number of items available, for example "July - 7", so you know how much material you will find before you even open it. Until yesterday, when a site had accumulated many months of photographic documentation, the only way to reach the period you cared about was to scroll the whole grid from beginning to end. On opening, the gallery positions itself on the most recent month that actually holds something, so you will never face an empty grid that you have to fill by changing the filter by hand. The default choice recalculates itself when you change year, period or category, and also right after content is uploaded or removed, with no action needed on your side. The counts shown in the menu follow the active category, so the number in the dropdown always matches the one of the group you see just below. There is always an explicit "All months" entry to get back to the full view grouped by month in a moment. You will find the new filter under XNatura → Regeneration → Site → Gallery, in the toolbar at the top.

The popup that opens when you click a pin on the Regeneration map now tells you far more than before: alongside the plants you also find the wildlife shelters and the bio-lakes present on that site. The bio-lake count finally refers to the individual site rather than to the overall total, an essential distinction for anyone managing several sites who wants to know where each intervention actually is. The shelters are back in the popup too: they had been removed by mistake, even though they are something the Regeneration section highlights both in the impact tab and in the indicators of the individual site. Every row shows the total in bold and, where it makes sense, the breakdown by type indented underneath, for example the different kinds of shelter installed. Entries with a value of zero are not printed at all, so the popup stays compact and never makes you read lines such as "0 shelters". The reading order follows the logic of the site: shelters first, then bio-lakes, and finally the block dedicated to plants and adoptable species. Nothing is required from you and there is no extra waiting, because this information already travelled together with the map pins. You can check it right away under XNatura → Regeneration → Map, by clicking a pin, or on the map of an individual site's detail page.

In the Overview, among the numbers that really matter, the card dedicated to biodiversity changes perspective and is now called "Regenerated biodiversity". Until yesterday that box showed the hectares of biodiversity lost against a pristine ecosystem: a correct figure, but one that opened the story of your project with a negative number and that the label did not explain with the necessary clarity. The card now measures the gain, that is, how many hectares of biodiversity the regeneration work has given back compared with each site's starting condition. The calculation compares, site by site, the land-use situation before the intervention with the regenerated scenario, and sums the results across every site on the platform. We chose a prudent rule: if even one site is missing one of the two terms of the comparison, the card does not appear at all, because a partial total would describe the whole estate with an incomplete number. In the same spirit the card stays hidden when the overall balance is not clearly positive, rather than showing a zero or a negative value that would take the reading straight back to where it was. It is an indicator designed to be shown with confidence to colleagues, partners and stakeholders: when it is there, it means the figure holds up. You will find it under XNatura → Overview → The numbers that matter, in the card dedicated to the ecosystem.

The platform's narrative view — the story of the project told chapter by chapter — was already reachable, but it had no direct entry point from the classic overview: the only way in was to type part of an address into the browser bar by hand. The Overview's top bar now shows 3Bee contacts a StoryView button that copies the story's public link to the clipboard, ready to be pasted into an email or a message. A "Link copied" confirmation appears next to the button, so you know straight away that it worked and do not have to check by pasting it somewhere. The button is available both in the desktop version and in the panel that opens from the menu on phones and tablets. No permission changes with this addition: the narrative view was already visible to anyone receiving the address on public platforms, it is simply much easier now to get hold of that link. We have also fixed the "Copy link" button in the story's epilogue, which copied an internal address instead of the public one: whoever received it could end up on a page that would not open. Both places now produce the same public address, in the right language and in the right form. You will find the button under XNatura → Overview, in the toolbar at the top, and "Copy link" at the end of the narrative view.

We have fixed a problem that could show different species numbers in different parts of the platform, even when they referred to the same site and the same period. There were two causes: some screens counted observations instead of species — and the same species can be detected many times — while others did not apply the confidence threshold the Census uses to discard uncertain identifications. The effect was disorienting, because the figure simply looked wrong on one of the two screens with nothing to explain the difference. We intervened on every point involved: the "Species detected" badge on the phone carousel, the cards and popups of the acoustic recorders, the sensors tab in the Census, the field monitoring widget used in external embeds, and the species gallery of the report builder. All these surfaces now apply the same Census filters — kingdom, confidence threshold and excluded groups — and they also follow the taxonomic group you have selected. Where the number shown really is the recordings and not the species, the label now says so explicitly, so a third unexplained number can no longer appear. A welcome side effect is that generated reports can no longer include species that the Census itself considers insufficiently reliable. Nothing is required from you, the fix is already active on every site, and you can check it under XNatura → Monitoring → Census.

We have solved a problem that made the satellite image vanish, leaving only the dark background, when you zoomed far into a site's map. The flaw was most noticeable when approaching sensors installed close to one another, that is, exactly when you need maximum detail, and it could make you think no imagery existed for that area. In reality the availability of very high resolution satellite imagery varies from area to area: in some places the detail stops one level earlier, and the map kept asking for a zoom level that does not exist instead of enlarging the last real image available. The platform now checks how far real imagery goes for the area you are looking at and stops there, enlarging that instead of showing emptiness. The fix has been extended to every map involved, so it applies to the Census, to the Sensors tab and to the other maps that share the same satellite background. We have also reduced the background reloads that happened while zooming, so navigation is smoother and you no longer see the image reappear in jerks. As an extra improvement, sensors a few metres apart now separate automatically as you zoom in, instead of staying clustered and forcing you to click on the group. You will find it all already active under XNatura → Monitoring → Census and in the Sensors tab of the same site.

We have fixed a problem that, on some visits, made the Regeneration map open completely empty, without a single pin, even when all the sites were there. It happened when the platform asked for the list of points to draw before the recognition of your sign-in was fully complete: at that instant restricted sites were left out of the response and the map stayed without markers. The behaviour was intermittent and therefore particularly sneaky, because it depended on how quickly the sign-in resolved and could show up for a colleague and not for you, on the very same platform. With no pins on the map, everything that depends on them disappeared as well, starting with the popups holding the counts of shelters, bio-lakes and plants. The request now waits until your sign-in has been recognised before it goes out, and the response is stored taking into account who asked for it, so a response without the restricted sites can no longer be reused for a complete view. We have also sorted out the choice of which tab opens first, which in these cases could settle on an empty tab while the sites were in the other one. In the meantime the map correctly shows its loading indicator, instead of looking ready and empty. The fix is already active and you can check it under XNatura → Regeneration → Map.

In the story chapter dedicated to the territory, the map and the project detail card could tell two different things at the same moment. Clicking the map background switched the pin off but left the card open, orphaned from the point it referred to; and after a search or a refresh of the points the pin went back to unselected while the card kept showing the project. There was also no way at all to cancel a selection, because clicking the already-chosen pin again did nothing. The selection is now a single one and it drives both things: the highlighted point on the map and the card you are reading are always the same project. Clicking a second time on the already-chosen pin cancels the selection, a click on the map background releases it, and the card now has an explicit close button that switches the pin off as well. As an extra improvement, picking an entry from the project list now highlights the matching pin on the map too, which never used to happen. A project's extended text no longer stays open when you move to a different project either, so content can no longer be attributed to the wrong point. You will find the fix under XNatura → Overview → Storytelling, in the chapter about the territory, and in the Overview's map of your sites.

We have sorted out two flaws that made the Overview headers tiring to read. The first concerns the subtitles of every section: they were capped at a fixed width and wrapped mid-clause even when hundreds of pixels sat unused to their right, breaking the sentence at arbitrary points. That cap has been removed from every section, so the copy takes the width actually available and wraps where it is natural to wrap. Instead of one reserved gutter for everybody, each section keeps clear exactly the area where its own button sits, so the text never ends up under an icon and never wastes space where there is no need. The second flaw concerns the cards in the section dedicated to impact: the handle for dragging and reordering cards sat at the bottom left, right on top of the subtitle, which ended up covered and unreadable. Worse still, the handle intercepted the click meant for the text, making it impossible to open that field's editor directly on the card. The handle is now at the top left, the only free corner, and it no longer interferes with either reading or editing. These are layout-only changes that touch neither colours nor content, and you will find them under XNatura → Overview.

In the project story, the first chapter dedicated to the introduction was squeezed into a reduced height on every screen, with an internal scrollbar. On computers, where there is plenty of vertical room, the result was a chapter cut in half: the description had to be read inside a small box, scrolling with a bar separate from the page's own. It was an uncomfortable experience and inconsistent with the following chapter, which instead stretched freely to whatever height it needed. From large screens up, the first chapter now takes all the room it needs and is read with the normal page scroll, just like all the others. The margins above and below are back to the rhythm of the neighbouring chapters too, so the story flows evenly from beginning to end. On phones the behaviour stays as it was, with the contained height and the internal scroll, which on a small screen is the right choice to keep the page from getting too long. The side navigation still highlights and jumps to the chapter correctly, because it does not depend on its height. You will find the fix under XNatura → Overview → Storytelling, in the first chapter of the story.

In the Overview card dedicated to absorbed CO2, the per-species breakdown showed a dash in the nectar column every time the value was zero. The result was ambiguous, because the same dash was also used when the figure did not exist at all: there was no way to tell a species that produced no nectar from a species we know nothing about. The situation was common and looked like an error: when the reference year starts in autumn, only the autumn-flowering species accrue nectar while all the others legitimately score zero, and the column looked broken with a single filled row. The column now shows every number, zero included and formatted like the rest, and the dash is reserved for cases where the figure really is missing. We have added a footnote, which appears only when at least one zero is on screen, explaining that nectar is counted solely within each species' flowering months. That way a "0 kg" next to a high number of plants reads as correct information rather than as a defect. The fix covers both the desktop and the phone version, which share the same card. You will find it under XNatura → Overview → Regeneration, in the absorbed CO2 card.

In the map of your sites, the cards dedicated to schools showed a long sequence of concatenated class codes and annexes under the title, practically unreadable and repetitive too, because the institute name was already printed in the title just above. That line exists as an operational annotation, useful to the people managing the data but not to the people consulting the map, and it took up the most visible space on the card. The card now shows the institute name alone, cleanly and consistently with the cards of the other points on the map. Search, however, keeps working exactly as before: you can search by class code or by annex name and the school is found, even though that text is no longer printed on the card. This was the delicate part of the fix, because simply hiding the text would have made it impossible to find a school starting from its class. Every other kind of point on the map — sites, hives, sensors, shelters, camera traps — keeps its detail line unchanged. The change applies both on computers and on phones, because the two versions share the same card. You will find it under XNatura → Overview → The map of your sites, by opening a point of the school kind.

The indicator cards on the Monitoring page viewed from a phone now look just like the Overview cards: a cover image, the indicator name with the question mark next to it, a large and prominent value, then the description lines. Before, they showed a small coloured symbol, the value, and the name relegated to the bottom, with no image: a less immediate read, visually distant from the rest of the platform. The main benefit is consistency, because moving from the overview to the monitoring you no longer have to relearn how a card is read. No information was lost along the way: the comparison between your site and the control area stays in the caption line, with its sign, and the control area's absolute value in the bottom line. The denominator of indices that have a maximum still appears next to the number, for example as "/ 40", so the scale of the value stays clear at a glance. The question mark still opens the extended explanation sheet, with long texts, bold type and lists, rather than a short help box. We also fixed a small graphical glitch where, when an indicator had no data at all, the dash and the name appeared twice. You will find the refreshed cards under XNatura → Monitoring, opening the platform from a phone.

We have lightened the Overview's numbers section by removing the boxes that had lost their purpose and by fixing the wordings that produced repetition. The "Monitored sites" card has been removed from every surface it appeared on, because with the new platform version the individual site's detail indicators are no longer reachable from there and the box no longer led anywhere. In the pillar dedicated to Monitoring we also removed the indicator on the natural land-use surface, at the request of the people using it, because the percentage it showed turned out to be more misleading than informative. Section counts update themselves, so where you used to read "6 indicators" you now read "5 indicators" with no inconsistency to fix by hand. On the remaining cards we cut the repeated words: the site figure no longer carries the "sites" unit next to it, which the label already states, and hectares are spelled out instead of abbreviated. The sensors card is now called "Sensors in the field", so it says right away where the instruments are, and the line below no longer repeats the same words as the label. From the adopted schools card we finally removed the educational-programmes line, which duplicated information already available elsewhere. All these wordings have been updated in the platform's five languages, and you will find them under XNatura → Overview → The numbers that matter.