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Gymnosporia senegalensis observed in Chobe, Botswana by Craig Peter. Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Occurrence records

Datasets

Publishing institutions

Peer-reviewed papers using data

Five projects receive funding from 2019 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme

14 August 2019

Using species occurrence data as evidence to test received biogeographic wisdom

15 August 2019

Belarus extends GBIF’s European membership map eastward

16 July 2019

Programme seeks Biodiversity Open Data Ambassadors to expand best practices

10 July 2019

Takydromus yunkaiensis sp. nov.

A new species of the genus Takydromus (Squamata, Lacertidae) from southwestern Guangdong, China

New dataset: Norwegian gamebirds of subfamily Tetraoninae

Tetraonid line transect surveys from Norway: Data from Fjellstyrene (photo: Lagopus lagopus by Oskar Liset Pryds Hansen - CC BY 4.0)

The GBIF network

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

Science Review 2019

Stay up to date on the latest research investigations enhanced and supported by free and open access to biodiversity data.