We want to help you understand what we know, how we know it and when to stop and ask for help. Our content is educational: it does not provide diagnoses, certifications or authorisations.
Three distinct kinds of information
- Direct observation. An event or photograph documents what happened in a particular context. It is not proof that the same holds for every individual.
- Documented information. For biology, we consult scientific publications and organisations; for procedures, we link to official sources. We state the scope and date of assessments, without confusing a national Red List with a global one.
- Specialist assessment. A diagnosis requires a vet; interpreting a certificate requires the relevant office. We credit a professional review only when it has actually been carried out and its attribution authorised.
How to read dates and links
An update date records an editorial change; it does not certify that every statement has been reassessed by a specialist. Source links let you trace the context. A page from 2013 may document a 2013 assessment: we do not present it as a new finding from 2026.
Photographs, illustrations and stories
The Guardians’ photographs come from the Foundation’s archive and are published as web copies without location coordinates. Generated illustrations are labelled and must not be used to identify a species, sex or state of health. In Little Guardians, we explicitly distinguish imaginary stories from observed facts.
An image being available online does not give permission to reuse it. For editorial requests, contact us with the file and intended use, without forwarding photographs of minors or personal documents.
A correction is a valuable contribution
Write to info@icustodidellaterra.org with the page title, the passage concerned and, if available, a verifiable source. Suggestions are not published automatically. For an animal emergency, do not wait for an editorial reply.
Search and artificial intelligence
We clearly identify editorial authors, definitions, limitations and links. This helps readers and systems that search for information. We do not replace reading the sources with a generated answer, nor promise visibility or rankings in search engines.
