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Environmental Non-Profit & Education/February 2026/Front-End Architect & Creative Engineer

Ghost of the Mountains

Interactive Conservation Storytelling & Geo-Cartography Platform

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSD3-geoReact-Simple-MapsRechartsFramer Motion

Lighthouse SEO & Accessibility

100/100

Full screen reader semantic ARIA

SVG Render Latency

60 FPS

Silky smooth vector animations

Narrative Engagement

5 Chapters

Branching choice tree structure

PROJECT_OVERVIEW

The Scope & Objective

An immersive digital conservation experience educating the public on snow leopard ecology in the Himalayas. Features interactive branching narratives, geographic telemetry, and gamified educational micro-mechanics.

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Commercial Friction Point

Non-profit donations and educational content frequently suffer from static, uninspiring PDFs and text dumps that fail to engage modern digital donors.

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Architectural Rationale

FrameworkNext.js App Router + TypeScript
Database / StateServerless JSON GeoJSON stores
UI Styling EngineTailwind CSS + Framer Motion choreographies
InfrastructureVercel Edge Network

Architectural Rationale: Combining D3-geo with lightweight React-Simple-Maps SVG layers gives high-performance interactive cartography of Central Asian mountain ranges without the heavy overhead of WebGL.

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Key Engineering Innovations

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Branching Snow Leopard Journey

Interactive narrative following Khangri, a snow leopard traversing treacherous mountain corridors, where user choices impact survival outcomes.

MOD_02

Himalayan Habitat & Corridor Heatmaps

Custom SVG geographic map layers showing territorial ranges, human-wildlife conflict zones, and protected sanctuary borders.

MOD_03

Integrated Donation & Adoption Funnel

Direct conversion touchpoints embedded at pivotal emotional narrative moments, driving non-profit donor engagement.

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