GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

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Aaronsohnia factorovskyi observed in the West Bank, Palestine by Ron Frumkin. Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Call for proposals: Analysis of biodiversity data needs in the post-2020 framework

News

2020 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity

News

Call for nominations to the 2020 GBIF Young Researchers Award

News

Virtual workshop planned on "Advancing the Catalogue of the World's Natural History Collections"

Data use

Global analysis of potential marginal land resources of cassava

Blog

Processing record-level licences for species occurrences

Taxonomy

New species: Craspedotropis gretathunbergae

Craspedotropis gretathunbergae, a new species of Cyclophoridae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda), discovered and described on a field course to Kuala Belalong rainforest, Brunei

Dataset update: More than 800,000 fungal records from the Danish Mycological Society

Latest update of dataset brings number of records to 805,080—including 164,224 with images

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