Poland elevates commitment to GBIF by becoming Voting Participant
Long-time Associate Participant is 39th full national member and 19th among European countries.
GBIF news
Capacity Enhancement Support Programme opens 2017 call for proposals
GBIF Participants can now submit proposals for funding for collaborative projects seeking to enhance their long-term capacity.
63.8 million new observations increase eBird total to 275 million records
Annual refresh of massive citizen science project grows by 30 per cent, showing biggest percentage gains in Asia and Europe
'Names in November' workshop targets single shared species list
Partnership with taxonomic community and Catalogue of Life aims to achieve a single, sustainable information service for species names
GBIF Secretariat seeks Programme Officer for Participation and Engagement
The GBIF Secretariat is seeking an experienced Programme Officer to provide vision, leadership and support for the GBIF community around the world.
Experts outline strategy for improving alien species information
GBIF task group recommendations support ‘Honolulu Challenge’ on action to reduce the impacts of invasive species on biodiversity.
Niger becomes GBIF’s newest country participant
Agrarian nation of south-central Sahel increases the ranks of African member states in GBIF to 17
Data ‘ignorance mapping’ entry wins 2016 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
Method developed by Swedish-based data scientist seeks to calculate “Where and when is data enough?”
GBIF.org implements licensing changes, updates terms of service
Latest improvements implement recommendations of extensive community consultation and prompt updates to data publisher and data user agreements.
Switzerland becomes voting member of GBIF
The signing of the GBIF Memorandum of Understanding as a full national member follows a decision of the Swiss Federal Council in July.