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GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

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What is GBIF?

Azure sea star (Linckia laevigata) observed in Suva, Fiji by Bird Explorers. Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Occurrence records

Datasets

Publishing institutions

Peer-reviewed papers using data

Twenty years of GBIF: Independent review charts successes and challenges

2020 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity

Call for data papers from European Russia

Call for nominations to the 2020 GBIF Young Researchers Award

New species: Cicinnus chambersi

Cicinnus chambersi: a new species of sack-bearer moth (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Cicinninae) from southeastern Arizona, USA

New dataset: India Biodiversity Portal

28k publication-grade observation records with images (photo by Siddarth Machado - CC BY)

Virtual workshop: Advancing the Catalogue of the World's Natural History Collections

A novel approach to creating aggregated maps of species occurrences