Protected Planet

April 15, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

If you are reading here for very first time we reccomend you to read Protected Planet WIKI to understand the PP family/architechture

You can check out the previous version of Protected Planet on GitHub.

TO DEVELOPERS - All protected planet family apps in one same place: For VSCode users, clone ProtectedPlanet repo and read/use protected-planet-family-apps.code-workspace to see all protected planet family apps in the same workspace and its repository links. To access the data-management-portal realted apps please read pp-data-management-portal.

Topics

When you clone this repo please do it recursively. For the first time:

git clone --recurse-submodules

If you already cloned it:

git submodule update --init --recursive
  1. Getting Started and Configuration with Docker
  2. Release Process (Sync Data Management Portal Data to Protected Planet)
  3. Deployment
  4. Development workflow, conventions and tips
  5. Search
  6. Background Workers
  7. Downloads
  8. Caching
  9. CMS
  10. Relationships between Protected Areas and Parcels
  11. Green List Functionality
  12. DB Connection between PP and Data Management Portal (FDW) Setup
  13. Banner system

Licence

Protected Planet is released under the BSD 3-Clause License.

Local (after setup)

Run application (within separate tabs)

  1. elasticsearch
  2. redis-server
  3. ./bin/webpack-dev-server
  4. rails s