We’re sorry, but GBIF doesn’t work properly without JavaScript enabled.
Our website has detected that you are using an outdated insecure browser that will prevent you from using the site. We suggest you upgrade to a modern browser.
{{nav.loginGreeting}}
  • Get data
      • Occurrences
      • Species
      • Datasets
      • Publishers
      • Trends
      • Citation guidance
  • Share
      • Publishing data
      • Dataset classes
      • Data quality
      • Data hosting
      • Become a publisher
      • Standards
      • Data papers
      • Citizen science
  • Tools
    • Publishers

      • IPT
      • Data validator
      • Suggest a dataset
      • Data repository
    • Users

      • GBIF API
      • Data processing
      • Rgbif
      • MAXENT
      • Tools catalogue
    • GBIF Labs

      • Species matching
      • Name Parser
      • Sequence ID
      • Relative observation trends
      • GBIF data blog
  • Inside GBIF
    • About

      • What is GBIF?
      • The GBIF Network
      • Become a member
      • Governance
      • Funders
      • Partnerships
      • Strategic plan
      • Contacts
    • News & Outreach

      • News
      • Featured data use
      • Events
      • Newsletters and lists
      • Awards
      • Community forum
      • Mentoring
      • Ambassadors
    • Programmes & projects

      • CESP: Capacity Enhancement Support Programme
      • BID: Biodiversity Information for Development
      • BIFA: Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia
      • Living Atlases
      • Eastern Europe & Central Asia
  • User profile
GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

Occurrences Species Datasets Publishers Resources
Search
What is GBIF?
Common pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata) by John D Reynolds via iNaturalist. Photo licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Occurrence records

1.000,000,000

Datasets

40,000

Publishing institutions

1,300

Peer-reviewed papers using data

3,450

Dr Joe Miller named new GBIF Executive Secretary

4 February 2019

CoordinateCleaner: fast and standardized cleaning of species occurrence data

19 February 2019

2019 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme call opens for proposals

Deadline: 24 Feb 2019

Call for nominations to the 2019 GBIF Young Researchers Award

GBIF Secretariat deadline: 15 May 2019

2019 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity

Deadline: 1 August 2019

Expanding local engagement and biodiversity data use through localized content

Japanese node on challenges and solutions to dealing with language barriers

Mobilization of biodiversity data from the private sector

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

Biodiversity infrastructures to crosslink metagenomics and species occurrence data

18 December 2018
What is GBIF? API FAQ Newsletter Privacy Terms and agreements Citation Acknowledgements
Contact GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark