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Journal · 1 May 2026 · 4 min

What locality precision protects

Why the public record gets less precise when the subject becomes more vulnerable.

There is a persistent fantasy in nature photography that more information is always better. It is not. A location that is harmless to publish for a mountain can be irresponsible to publish for an animal.

This site treats locality precision as an ethical setting rather than a formatting choice. When a taxon is threatened, stale in assessment, or otherwise sensitive, the image record backs away from exact coordinates.

Why the system does it this way

The point is not theatrical secrecy. It is to remove one unnecessary vector of pressure while keeping the work legible. Region-level context is usually enough for a viewer to understand place without turning a page into a treasure map.

That is why the public surfaces, product pages, and future CMS all share the same redaction rule rather than leaving it to manual memory.