Niamoto
Active since 2024

Portail de la forêt de Nouvelle-Calédonie

A reference ecological portal for New Caledonia's forests — built on Niamoto, maintained by Province Nord, Province Sud, IRD, and IAC.

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Portal home page — forest of New Caledonia Taxons browser — 1,278 species Taxon detail page — Araucariaceae family Forest plot detail page
1,278
species catalogued
5,411
km² forest mapped
22
forest plots
19,435
trees measured

Source partners: Province Nord, Province Sud, Endemia, AMAP, Herbier de Nouvelle-Calédonie, IAC, IRD, CIRAD, OFB

Inside the portal

Three page types power the portal — each generated automatically from the underlying data.

Taxons — 1,278 species with maps and statistics

Taxons — 1,278 species with maps and statistics

Taxon pages with occurrence maps, field stats, and phenology

Screenshot pending

Plots — 22 inventory locations across the territory

Spatial inventory network with per-plot summaries

Screenshot pending

Methodology — reproducible science, documented inline

Method pages embedded in the portal itself

Niamoto turned a decade of forest data into a living portal. Researchers, managers, and the public all read the same source of truth.
— Institut Agronomique néo-Calédonien

How it's built

The portal is a static site generated by Niamoto. Data is pulled from CSV exports of the research databases, transformed through a stack of 14 plugins, and rendered to HTML with the static_website exporter. Total build time: 4 minutes on a laptop.

  • 14 Transformer plugins in the pipeline
  • 8 Widget types (maps, charts, tables)
  • Bilingual (FR / EN) with per-language routing
  • Hosted on static hosting with automated redeploys

Stack

  • Python · DuckDB · Pandas
  • Leaflet · Plotly · Mapbox
  • Jinja2 · Tailwind CSS
  • Static hosting + CI

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