GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

Occurrences Species Datasets Publishers Resources

What is GBIF?

Summer tadpole shrimp (Triops longicaudatus) by Tony Palmer via iNaturalist. Photo (mirrored) licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

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

3 August 2018

16 August 2018

6 July 2018

Deadline: 5 September 2018

31 July 2018

A collaborative and innovative approach to training for the ecoscience community

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

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