Terms of use

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Welcome to J&J Naturalists. You are welcome to look, learn and share links. The photographs, drawings and words on this site belong to their makers, and these terms say how they may be used.

Who owns what

• Photographs — © James Holkko. All rights reserved.
• Drawings — © J&J Naturalists, made with AI assistance.
• Words — © J&J Naturalists (James Holkko and Juliet Pendray), unless a page names another author or source.

What you may do

• View the site and use it for your own learning.
• Share a link to any page.
• Quote a short passage, with credit to J&J Naturalists and a link to the page.

What needs our written permission first

• Copying, downloading for reuse, republishing, altering or selling any photograph, drawing or text.
• Using any of it on another website, in print, or in a product.
• Showing our pictures on another site straight from ours (hotlinking).

No AI training or data mining

No part of this site — its photographs, drawings or words — may be collected, mined or used to train, fine-tune or feed artificial-intelligence or machine-learning systems, or to build datasets for them. This is an express reservation of rights. Search engines may index the site so that people can find it. The same notice is written into every picture's own data and into this site's instructions for automated visitors.

A note on the natural history

The species descriptions are for learning and are being reviewed. Never eat or use any wild plant or fungus on the strength of this site.

How to ask permission

Write to james [at] jandjnaturalists [dot] ca, saying what you would like to use and how. We are glad to hear from schools, naturalist groups and fellow photographers.