GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

Occurrences Species Datasets Publishers Resources

What is GBIF?

Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) by hsycbcgdf via iNaturalist. Photo licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

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

6 July 2018

13 July 2018

9 July 2018

A collaborative and innovative approach to training for the ecoscience community

Deadline: 5 September 2018

12 June 2018

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

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