GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

Occurrences Species Datasets Publishers Resources

What is GBIF?

Thysanostoma flagellatum by Peter via iNaturalist. Photo licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

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

29 August 2018

17 September 2018

A Norwegian data flow established to ensure mobilization of biodiversity data to GBIF from the private sector

3 August 2018

6 July 2018

31 July 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.