# PLOT trust register Which sources PLOT relies on, and for what. PLOT doesn't re-check every record from a source it trusts: it decides what the source is authoritative for, and checks every update by code. Claims from these sources say "from an approved source", not Reviewed: PLOT checked that the source says it, not that it's true on the ground. - Address: https://www.plot.eco/trust (also https://www.plot.eco/trust.json) ## Plain answers **Did PLOT check all 2,222 rows of the EPBC Act list of threatened species?** Code read all 2,222 rows of PLOT's stored copy of the file. PLOT uses 8 of them so far, and code compared each of those 8 with its row: all match. No person read the 2,222 rows one by one: a PLOT owner decided once that this list is the authority for listing status (category and scope), and every new copy of the file is checked the same way before anything from it is used. **Did PLOT check all 2,018 rows of Victoria's Threatened List?** Code read all 2,018 rows of PLOT's stored copy of the file. PLOT uses 9 of them so far, and code compared each of those 9 with its row: all match. No person read the 2,018 rows one by one: a PLOT owner decided once that this list is the authority for listing status (category and scope), and every new copy of the file is checked the same way before anything from it is used. ## Grants in force (6) ### ABN Lookup bulk extract (Australian Business Register) - Publisher: Australian Business Register (Australian Taxation Office) - Licence: CC-BY-3.0-AU (checked 2026-10-27 at https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/abn-bulk-extract) - Trusted for: Register facts about companies and organisations (they're otherwise never approved by a grant: D24); Entity type (ABN register) - Not trusted for: Individuals (never read or stored); Whether a trust or partnership is named after a person (a person decides); Business and trading names (not taken); Each species' sensitivity: always a person's decision - Latest update checked: not checked yet - Since 2026-10-27, signed by a PLOT owner; connector companies-register@1 ### Atlas of Living Australia image service - Publisher: Atlas of Living Australia - Licence: Each image carries its own licence, read from its own record in the ALA image service; PLOT republishes only what the licence gate allows (lib/species/licence-gate.ts). (checked 2026-10-21 at https://www.ala.org.au/terms-of-use/) - Trusted for: Image rights, from each image's own licence; Licences accepted: cc0, pdm, cc_by, cc_by_sa, cc_by_nc - Not trusted for: Whether it shows the species (identity); Which image is the hero; The location check for species with location rules; NoDerivatives and unclear licences; Each species' sensitivity: always a person's decision - Latest update checked: 2026-10-21. 57 records compared by code: all match. - Since 2026-10-21, signed by a PLOT owner; connector species-images@1 ### Atlas of Living Australia species API (relaying AFD and APC) - Publisher: Atlas of Living Australia - Licence: CC-BY-3.0-AU (checked 2026-10-21 at https://www.ala.org.au/terms-of-use/) - Trusted for: Species: accepted name, rank and classification (exact matches); Common names; Synonyms - Not trusted for: Conservation status (use the EPBC and FFG lists, D39); Indigenous-language names (only from their knowledge holders); Inexact name matches; Each species' sensitivity - Latest update checked: 2026-10-21. 57 records compared by code: all match. - Since 2026-10-21, signed by a PLOT owner; connector species-listed@1 ### EPBC Act list of threatened species (Threatened Species State Lists) - Publisher: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - Licence: CC-BY-3.0-AU (checked 2026-10-20 at https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/threatened-species-state-lists) - Trusted for: Listing status (category and scope); Common names - Not trusted for: Listing dates (not in the file); State and territory columns (indicative occurrence, not listings); Anything a person must interpret, e.g. a listing applied to a subspecies; Each species' sensitivity: always a person's decision - Latest update checked: 2026-10-21. 8 records compared by code with the 2,222-row file: all match. - Since 2026-10-21, signed by a PLOT owner; connector species-listed@1 ### NGER: greenhouse and energy information by registered corporation - Publisher: Clean Energy Regulator - Licence: CC-BY-4.0 (checked 2026-10-27 at https://cer.gov.au/about-us/our-policies/copyright) - Trusted for: Register facts about companies and organisations (they're otherwise never approved by a grant: D24); Reporting under the NGER Act; Scope 1 emissions (corporate group totals); Scope 2 emissions, location-based (corporate group totals); Net energy consumed (corporate group totals); Companies, organisations and facilities: identity from an exact register number (ABN, ACN, LEI or a regulator's facility id) - Not trusted for: Facilities or sites (the corporate table has none); Market-based scope 2 (a separate table); Corporations identified only by an address (a person matches them); Any comparison, ranking or trend; Each species' sensitivity: always a person's decision - Latest update checked: not checked yet - Since 2026-10-28, signed by a PLOT owner; connector companies-register@1 ### Victoria's Threatened List (Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988) - Publisher: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Victoria) - Licence: CC-BY-4.0 (checked 2026-10-21 at https://www.deeca.vic.gov.au/copyright) - Trusted for: Listing status (category and scope); Common names - Not trusted for: Anything a person must interpret, e.g. a species listing applied to a subspecies; Each species' sensitivity: always a person's decision - Latest update checked: 2026-10-21. 9 records compared by code with the 2,018-row file: all match. - Since 2026-10-21, signed by a PLOT owner; connector species-listed@1 ## Not yet trusted - ASIC company dataset (company register snapshot) (Australian Securities and Investments Commission): Its licence isn't confirmed yet, so its records are reviewed one by one. - GLEIF LEI records and relationship records (Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation): Its licence isn't confirmed yet, so its records are reviewed one by one. - National Pollutant Inventory: facilities (Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water): Its licence isn't confirmed yet, so its records are reviewed one by one. ## Withdrawn grants None yet. A withdrawn grant stays listed with its date and reason, and its claims are flagged for re-review, never silently removed.