Threatened-species screening, shown separately from the legal outcome
Threatened-species screening asks what has been recorded living on a plot and within a kilometre of it, by threat category: critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened. ERWAY Legality Assessment answers for each plot with the records grouped by category, inside versus nearby, and a species risk from none to high. The risk is shown alongside the outcome and never enters it, and every view states this.
The search area is the plot plus a one-kilometre buffer by default, and the default is named. The risk follows from the highest category present among species other than the cultivated commodity: one critically endangered record inside the plot gives 'High'; a vulnerable record nearby gives 'Low'. The project's own declared crop is listed and excluded, so a hazelnut orchard is not flagged for hazelnut. A medium or high risk puts the plot into the 'with findings' filter — but changes no outcome and no tier. The outcome scale is decided by the other four sources.
Why species are kept out of the outcome
Occurrence records show where observers have been, not where species are absent, and a record is not a legal restriction. Folding species into the outcome would make a well-surveyed plot look worse than an unsurveyed one and would present an ecological signal as a legal one. The product therefore keeps the two clearly separate: the species panel is context for the specialist who comes next, and the dashed badge and the 'Not in the outcome' tag on every view are the reminder.
What the panel shows
Records by category, inside and within 1 km; the notable records with their group, category, location and the year last seen; the cultivated commodity set apart; and the risk with its reason in one sentence. At most three thousand records are read per plot, and species points on the map are capped so it stays readable. Nothing here replaces a survey, and the panel states this clearly.
Where it is used
A lender's IFC PS6 pre-screening, where the species context frames the critical-habitat question the specialist will answer; a carbon or restoration project's safeguards file; a consultancy's scoping before the field visit. In each case the export carries the species risk and the category counts per plot alongside the legal findings, labelled as informational.