GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

Occurrences Species Datasets Publishers Resources

What is GBIF?

Common sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) by Martin Grimm via iNaturalist. Photo licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

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

3 August 2018

21 August 2018

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

Deadline: 5 September 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.