Mike's Notes
This is where I will keep detailed working notes on creating Workspaces for Nature Conservation. Eventually, these will become permanent, better-written documentation stored elsewhere. Hopefully, someone will come up with a better name than this working title.
This replaces coverage in Industry Workspace written on 13/10/2025.
Testing
The current online mockup is version 3 and will be updated frequently. If you are helping with testing, please remember to delete your browser cache so you see the daily changes. Eventually, a live demo version will be available for field trials.
Learning
Pipi first originated in 1997 as a way to support community-driven ecological restoration in NZ. Versions 1-5 were created by a team that I led at NZERN (New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network) and were very popular. It included ESRI GIS online mapping as part of ESRI GIS for Conservation.
However, a change of government and the Christchurch earthquakes destroyed a good system. From 2017, I rebuilt Pipi from memory as version 6, without the ecological restoration modules, as a generic platform. Now, years later, nature conservation is returning to Pipi, but in a much better way.
Why
I have many friends who have dedicated their lives to saving species from extinction, so anything that makes their jobs easier must be a good thing.
Resources
- https://www.blog.ajabbi.com/2025/10/industry-workspace.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species360
References
References
- Reference
Repository
- Home > Ajabbi Research > Library >
- Home > Handbook >
Last Updated
24/11/2025
Workspaces for Nature Conservation
Mike is the inventor and architect of Pipi and the founder of Ajabbi.
Open-source
This open-source SaaS cloud system will be shared on GitHub and GitLab.
Dedication
This workspace is dedicated to the life and work of Don Merton and his Wildlife Service Team, who saved the Chatham Island Black Robin from extinction.
Richard Henry kākāpō held by Merton, Codfish Island / Whenua Hou, November 2010.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Merton#/media/File:DonMerton_and_RichardHenry_Kakapo.jpg
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Merton
- https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/name/donald-merton-obituary?id=40793551
- https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6m13/merton-donald-vincent
Change Log
Ver 3 includes facility, nature, people, tools.
Existing products
- https://www.miradishare.org/
- https://smartconservationtools.org/en-us/
- https://marxansolutions.org/
- Zonation
- https://www.conservationstandards.org/tools/
- https://landconservationsoftware.com/
- https://www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/monitoring-and-reporting-system/
- https://consbio.org/services/conservation-software-solutions/
- https://www.conservationgateway.org/ConservationPlanning/Measures/Tools/Pages/tools-measures.aspx
Features
This is a basic comparison of features found in nature conservation software.
[TABLE]
Data Model
words
Database Entities
- Facility
- Party
- etc
Systems
Standards
The workspace needs to comply with all international standards.
- (To come)
Workspace navigation menu
This default outline needs a lot of work. The outline can be easily customised by future users using drag-and-drop and tick boxes to turn features off and on.
- Enterprise Account
- Applications
- Nature Conservation (v.3)
- Facility
- Plant Nursery
- Seed
- Propagation
- Growing
- Shop
- Zoo
- Animal Health
- Captive Breeding
- Nature
- Ecosystem
- Climate
- Landform
- Soil
- Taxonomy
- People
- Workers
- Visitors
- Tools
- Agrichemical
- Monitoring
- Planting
- Protection
- Release
- Spatial
- Trapping
- Customer (v2)
- Bookmarks
- (To come)
- Support
- Contact
- Forum
- Live Chat
- Office Hours
- Requests
- Tickets
- (To come)
- Feature Vote
- Feedback
- Surveys
- Learning
- Explanation
- How to Guide
- Reference
- Tutorial
- Settings (v3)
- Account
- Billing
- Deployments
- Workspaces
- Modules
- Plugins
- Templates
- Eco-restoration
- Park
- Zoo
- Users
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