GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

Ooperipatellus spenceri (Cockerell, 1913) collected on Mount Wellington, Tasmania. Photo via Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

What is GBIF?

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

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