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• Environmental technology | green technology | clean technology [Reddit]2026-10-10✓ Read

  Built a free aquatic-conservation platform for South Africa - React/.NET, live GBIF + IUCN data, PostGIS mapping. Looking for feedback

  Hi r/envirotech — I’m a solo developer in South Africa. I’ve spent about a year and a half building EcoAquatic (ecoaquatic.org), a free, non-commercial platform for tracking fish species and aquatic conservation, starting with South African waters and built to expand country by country. The tech side, since this is the crowd for it: React + TypeScript frontend, .NET backend. Species data built on the GBIF taxonomic backbone (3,000+ species with confirmed SA occurrences), enriched with live IUCN Red List status and FishBase/SASSI data.

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