# 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. | File | Used on | Subject | Author | Licence | Source | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | `land-hero.jpg` | Land, Home hero | Landscape of Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve | Murugavel.T | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landscape_of_Sathyamangalam_Tiger_Reserve.jpg) | | `land-forest.jpg` | Land | Sathyamangalam forest interior | Suniltg | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SathyamangalamForest.jpg) | | `life-elephant-herd.jpg` | Life, Home | Asian elephant herd in the forest, STR | Murugavel.T | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_elephant_herd_in_the_forest.jpg) | | `life-elephant-gobi.jpg` | Life | Asian elephant ("Gobi") | Magentic Manifestations | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_Gobi.jpg) | | `life-storks-moyar.jpg` | Life | Painted storks over the Moyar river, STR | Murugavel.T | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_flock_of_Painted_storks_gliding_to_the_waters_of_Moyar.jpg) | | `life-mugger-crocodile.jpg` | Life | Mugger crocodile, Moyar river, STR | Murugavel.T | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mugger_crocodile_(Crocodylus_palustris)_on_the_banks_of_Moyar_River.jpg) | | `life-chowsingha.jpg` | Life | Male chowsingha (four-horned antelope), STR, 15 Aug 2014 | A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India / NCF | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Male_chowsingha_Sathyamangalam_TR_15_August_2014_AJTJohnsingh.jpg) | | `places-moyar-gorge.jpg` | Land & Places, About, Contact, Home | Moyar gorge with Beer Mukkan temple, boundary of MTR/STR | Sibiarasu123 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_view_of_the_Moyar_gorge_with_the_Beer_Mukkan_temple_to_the_left_of_the_frame.jpg) | | `history-coimbatore-1854-map.jpg` | History | Map of Coimbatore District, 1854 | J. & C. Walker; Pharoah and Co., Madras | Public domain (CC0 / PDM 1.0) | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coimbatore_1854.jpg) | | `land-terrain.jpg` | Land | Rugged terrain where the Western and Eastern Ghats converge, STR | Murugavel.T | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lansacape_of_Sathyamangalam_Tiger_Reserve.jpg) | | `life-senna-flower.jpg` | Life | *Senna spectabilis* in flower (species, not this landscape — Tenerife, Canary Islands) | Solanum | Public domain (CC0 / PDM 1.0) | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassia-spectabilis-flowers.JPG) | | `visit-bhavanisagar-dam.jpg` | Visit | Bhavanisagar Dam | Vkraja | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhavanisagar_Dam.jpg) | | `visit-bannari-temple.jpg` | Visit | Bannari Amman Temple | Krishnaeee | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bannari_Amman_Temple.JPG) | | `visit-kodiveri-dam.jpg` | Visit | Kodiveri Dam on the Bhavani river | JayakanthanG | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kodiveri_Dam_(%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF)_-_panoramio.jpg) | | `visit-dimbam-ghat.jpg` | Visit | Dimbam ghat, NH-948 | Rsrikanth05 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NH-209-Dimbam_Ghat.jpg) | | `people-soliga-hut.jpg` | Home (People band) | Soliga family outside a traditional hut, BR Hills, Karnataka | Kalyan Varma | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soliga_Hut_DSC1620.jpg) | ## 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.