GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

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What is GBIF? About GBIF

Gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes polymerus by Rosalind Helfand via iNaturalist. Photo licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

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

16 October 2017

13 October 2017

16 October 2017

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

What is sampling-event data and why is it important?

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

Updates on new features (last updated 13 Oct 2017)

A data paper is a peer reviewed document describing a dataset, published in a peer reviewed journal.