Orchisauvage has just passed the milestone of one million data!

The success hoped for when the site was first launched in 2014 has been achieved.

Behind this impressive amount of data, some 5 000 users - beginners or more experienced orchidophiles, alone in the field or with a group - have registered and share their observations on the site or with the NaturaList application.

More than 60 cartographers / validation experts, voluntarily examine the data, often on a daily basis, and validate them or dialogue with observers if necessary.

The objective of the site remains more than ever a better knowledge of orchids for everyone including the scientific community. Once validated, the data is used in studies, publications and naturalist inventories.

The new encyclopaedia to be published in early 2023 will contain species distribution maps produced using all the data gathered.

ORCHISAUVAGE: a tremendous collective momentum of which you are the source and for which we warmly thank you!

The site administrators on behalf of the FFO

Dear contributors,

This year the FFO will complete the production of a new encyclopaedic reference work on the orchids of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, with a view to publication in the 1st quarter of 2023.

This book will feature all the species distribution maps compiled from observation data that you have entered in Orchisauvage.

In order to  include the most recent data, we invite you to enter them as soon as possible before the deadline of September 15, thus giving us enough time for their verification.

The Orchisauvage administrators, on behalf of the cartographers’ community, thank you in advance for taking this specific constraint into account.

Our goal is to publish maps showing the species’ history and abundance as can be seen in the example below: