GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

Occurrences Species Datasets Publishers Resources

What is GBIF?

Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) by Alvaro Jaramillo via iNaturalist. Photo licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Learn more about the number of species covered by data in GBIF.org.

13 June 2018

8 June 2018

12 June 2018

Deadline: 5 September 2018

Dozens of countries and organizations working together to make species data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.

A data paper is a peer reviewed document describing a dataset, published in a peer reviewed journal.

Current priorities for guiding investment and effort to digitize and mobilize biodiversity data

What is sampling-event data and why is it important?