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Linnaea amabilis by observed in Kilkenny, Ireland by ndleblanc. Photo–via iNaturalist–licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

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Cameroon and Liberia boost GBIF Africa membership to 20 countries

12 October 2018

Global bans on bird trade needed to stop invasions

5 October 2018

Student award winner investigates climate-driven changes to seaweed distribution in Atlantic Iberian marine forests

25 September 2018

Student award winner explores innovative methods of producing more reliable ecological niche models for highly mobile species

25 September 2018

Training through e-learning: a guiding example from GBIF Spain

Experiences with choosing and setting up an e-learning platform for training in the Spanish-speaking community–and an invitation for other nodes to join

Adding sequence-based identifiers to backbone taxonomy reveals 'dark taxa' fungi

29 August 2018

Partners signal new alliance for biodiversity knowledge

3 August 2018

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