MAP
Map your favorite nature-related places
JOIN
Join communities to help make a difference
SUPPORT
Support your areas as a friend
Show your love for your favorite pieces of nature
GREENMAPPER
Share nature related places you love
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? Please share your places at Greenmapper! Why? Let us explain.
WISE DECISIONS
In our rapidly developing and globalising world many developments 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, when land-use decisions need to be taken, it is logical to let people who love the natural areas have a voice. Since they can then express their opinions, and they can give support of various kinds. But how to realize 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?
THE DOUBLE MISSION
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 and landscapes. For this we are building a crowd-sourced Greenmapper Attractive Nature Database. Our aim is to have 125.000 representative respondents from 50 countries marking nature places: at local, regional, national, and global levels to allow for serious analysis and policy support at all levels.
Second, we want to make it easy and normal for fans of areas to be reachable online. For this, we develop the Greenmapper Landscape Friend platform. We aim for 1 million people being reachable as an online friend of their favorite nature areas and landscapes, to digitally revolutionize nature and landscape governance. Help us in our mission and join in! We will do the science. And together with our partners, we will work on improving the governance of nature and landscapes. Please note: Your personal data remain private with Greenmapper.
Map attractive nature and become a landscape friend
Register as a landscape friend for one or more attractive places
Register as landscape friend for one or more attractive places
✓ Mark 4 attractive nature places: local, region, nation, globe
✓ Non-anonymous – email and address known to Greenmapper
✓ Others can reach you as friend of your area, but only anonymously via Greenmapper
✓ 5-8 minutes
✓ Mark up to 16 places later on
Register as a nature or landscape management organization
✓ Mark the area(s) you own or manage
✓ See how many people marked your area
✓ Reach out to these fans through the platform
✓ Build communities upon your areas
Projects
We are currently working on different projects together with societal organizations. One major project is the Interreg project FREIIA together with island partners in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands and France. Another project is the ‘Innovative financial instruments for landscape governance’ project together with the National Park of Texel and Staatsbosbeheer (a.o.).
FREIIANationaal Park Duinen van TexelPublications
You can read more about our publications or our Open Access database by clicking these buttons:
Open access databasePublicationsExplore Greenmapper data
We surveyed over 15.000 people in The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland,
Italy, Brazil and South-Korea. We share our data to support academic research and policy making. Please contact us if you would like to analyze the gathered data.
Contact us
Questions or remarks? Feel free to contact us!