Media credits

Every image used across The Sathyamangalam Record site, with source, author and licence. All files live in site/media/ and were downloaded from Wikimedia Commons (verified license on each file's description page at time of download, 14 August 2026). Attribution required under CC BY-SA — this file satisfies that requirement; individual pages also carry inline photo credits.

Notes on sourcing decisions

• Preferred subject-matched images from an actual Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve Commons category (Category:Sathyamangalam_Tiger_Reserve, 37 files) over generic stock. Most images on this site are genuinely taken inside the reserve, not stand-ins from elsewhere in India.
• people.html itself still carries no photography of Soliga, Irula, Kurumba or Malasar individuals — that page's own stated consent protocol ("we do not use stock photography of tribal people") stands unchanged for that page.
• The Home page's People band (15 Aug 2026) now uses one photo of identifiable people (people-soliga-hut.jpg, a Soliga family outside a hut in BR Hills, Karnataka — a different Soliga community than the one inside Sathyamangalam itself, same broader ethnic group) after the site owner requested it. What's actually verified: a named professional photographer (Kalyan Varma), his own CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, uploaded under his own account since 2017. What's NOT verified: informed consent from the two people pictured to be photographed and published — no documentation of that exists on the Commons file page or anywhere this site could check. This is a real, if partial, step down from this site's stated bar (a credited open licence, not confirmed subject consent) — logged here plainly rather than glossed over, so a future editor can see exactly what was and wasn't checked before deciding whether to keep, replace, or remove it.
• History page uses the 1854 Coimbatore District map (public domain, pre-1887 predecessor to Nicholson's 1887 Manual) as the closest available genuinely public-domain gazetteer-era cartography for this district. No freely licensed scan of the 1887 Nicholson manual illustrations specifically was found with a stable direct-hosted URL; the map serves as the archival visual anchor for the History timeline instead.
• Land, Life and Visit page photography gaps (see previous entry's date) were filled 15 August 2026 after a further Wikimedia Commons search: land-terrain.jpg (general reserve terrain, not per-forest-type — no photo set distinguishing all five Champion & Seth types individually was found, so this remains a partial fix, captioned honestly as such on the page), life-senna-flower.jpg (the species, photographed in Tenerife — no photo of the bloom specific to this landscape was found, also captioned honestly), and four visit-*.jpg landmark photos (Bhavanisagar Dam, Bannari Amman Temple, Kodiveri Dam, Dimbam ghat — all four subject-specific and verified).
• Governance page (Live pressures) still carries a marked photography gap. No verifiably CC-licensed photo of this reserve's boundary fencing or human-elephant conflict mitigation was found. Left marked with .inst-placeholder rather than filled with a generic or unrelated stock photo — same standard as every other entry on this page.
• No video was embedded. Search did not turn up a video on Wikimedia Commons that is both (a) genuinely of Sathyamangalam / this landscape specifically and (b) clearly and verifiably CC-licensed with a stable URL. Per the brief's own instruction — leave a clearly marked absence rather than use uncertain-license or irrelevant media — no video element ships in this build. A placeholder comment marks where one could go on the Land page if a suitable clip is found later.
• All files re-hosted locally under site/media/ rather than hotlinked, so the site does not depend on Commons' own CDN staying reachable or the original file page structure remaining stable.
• Downloaded 14 August 2026, office Mac session. Licenses verified directly from each file's Wikimedia Commons description page at download time.
• str-range-map.svg (Home, ten-range hover map) is not from Wikimedia Commons and is not CC-licensed. It's a direct copy of the Tamil Nadu Forest Department's own GIS-exported boundary map, from their live portal (sathytiger.tn.gov.in/assets/img/STR.svg, an Esri ArcMap export), used as a primary government source — same basis as the 2013 gazette notification PDF cited elsewhere on this site, not as licensed photography. Boundary geometry is unchanged from the source file; only the fill colours were changed (15 August 2026), from the department's own green-only palette onto tones from this site's own institutional palette, so the map reads as this site's own rather than a visual copy of the reference. Range area/attractions/features text shown alongside it is likewise sourced directly from that same portal.

Licence summary

Content on this site: CC BY-SA 4.0. Data: CC BY 4.0. Media above: as listed per-file (CC BY-SA 3.0/4.0 or public domain), each requiring attribution as given in the table — attribution is provided both here and inline in each page's credit line under its gallery/hero image.

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