GitHub - dvonlehman/earthwild.life: Explore the species that the Wildlife Conservation Society is working to protect

Data Preparation

Download 980mb zip file of geo data from Red List
Use these instructions to convert .shp file to .geojson: ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -t_srs crs:84 mammals.geojson MAMMALS.shp. This creates a massive 3.6gb MAMMALS.geojson file.
Extract the geo json entry for each species by running bash extract_species_geo.sh species_id. This will create a much smaller species file, i.e. 7140.json.