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GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility GBIF provides the human and informatics infrastructure to enable primary biodiversity data to be made discoverable and accessible via the Internet.

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and research infrastructure aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all life on Earth. More than 1.8 billion species occurrence records, ranging from museum specimens to amateur observations, are accessible via the GBIF data portal. The data published through GBIF are used for a wide variety of scientific applications, including modelling the potential spread of invasive alien species, projecting impacts of climate change on biodiversity and establishing priorities for the collection of wild crop relatives.

You've head about the recent breaking changes to the GBIF backbone taxonomy following migration to the Catalogue of Life...
16/10/2026

You've head about the recent breaking changes to the GBIF backbone taxonomy following migration to the Catalogue of Life Extended Release, now read about how these changes affect downloads 🤖

In the latest authored by John Waller, learn how to update your numeric GBIF Backbone taxon keys to alphanumeric COL XR keys 🗝️

These are necessary changes as the GBIF Backbone will no longer be updated.

🔗https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/sql-downloads-col-xr/

✈️ GBIF is heading to Armenia for the 17th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversit...
15/10/2026

✈️ GBIF is heading to Armenia for the 17th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity !

🌍 This global biodiversity event marks a significant milestone for parties to assess progress towards the 23 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), adopted in 2022.

GBIF is proud to welcome delegates to the Data to Action Pavilion with our partners GEO BON , Group on Earth Observations, Smithsonian Science, University of Zurich, The Allen Institue, Ai2, Esri, ESA - European Space Agency, Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec and NOMIS Foundation!

With 81 sessions and 54 presenting organizations, the is a one-stop-shop for connecting science and knowledge systems for biodiversity. 💚

Explore the program: 🔗 https://cop17pavilion.org/programme/

United Nations Biodiversity

📸 Snaps for on welcoming their second national data provider, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - LIST!Th...
15/10/2026

📸 Snaps for on welcoming their second national data provider, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - LIST!

Through this data partnership, more than 85,000 mammal monitoring records have been made available to GBIF using the Darwin Core CamTrap data package across two datasets! The datasets span monitoring efforts from 2020-2025 that used non-invasive techniques to study polecats, martens and wildcats across 72x 1km square sites. 🐈

Explore the datasets: 🔗https://www.gbif.org/dataset/search?publishingOrg=d56a3183-3603-4313-925a-a13ddc2eefec

Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg - Naturmusée

🎉 Congratulations to on the release of the !This common approach for measuring change in species and ecosystems will ...
14/10/2026

🎉 Congratulations to on the release of the !

This common approach for measuring change in species and ecosystems will help business and finance understand their biodiversity-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities. 🔗 https://www.naturepositive.org/news/latest-news/landmark-state-of-nature-metrics-launched/

By enriching data standards and formats that strengthen biodiversity data, metrics and indicators for measuring whether action for nature is working, the GBIF network is enhancing discovery, reuse and interoperability of biodiversity data for tracking planetary health. 🔗
https://www.gbif.org/sam

🥁 Announcing GBIF's new Governing Board chair 🎉 Martin Kalfatovic!Martin was elected to the position at GB33 in Oslo, fo...
13/10/2026

🥁 Announcing GBIF's new Governing Board chair 🎉 Martin Kalfatovic!

Martin was elected to the position at GB33 in Oslo, following the completion of the outgoing chair Liam Lysaght's two terms.

Along with our new Governing Board chair, we are pleased to also announce Christoph Häuser, Tim Littlewood, Fatima Parker-Allie, Jurate De Prins and Pr Pierre RADJI have been elected into GBIF committee positions! 🎉 Congratulations to all new elects and a huge thank you to all our outgoing committee members! 💚

The 33rd GBIF Governing Board meeting had one of the highest attendances on record with 42 delegations present, represented by 104 attendees from around the world in Oslo! 🌍 We're grateful to our hosts for their excellent coordination and hospitality in making GB33 and surrounding events happen. ❤️

Read more about the new appointments and outcomes from events in Oslo: 🔗 https://gbif.link/GB33

✍️ Register to join our last Data Use Club event for the year: DNA sequence searching on the new GBIF.org!This session p...
12/10/2026

✍️ Register to join our last Data Use Club event for the year: DNA sequence searching on the new GBIF.org!

This session provides an overview of using the sequence search function, including discussions of best practices for using the sequence data.

Topics covered in this session:
🦋 DNA integration in biodiversity data
🔎Sequence search and use
📊 Dashboards for sequence data

📍 19 November 09:00-10:30 CET

Register: 🔗https://gbif.link/DUC_sequence-search

Cecilie Svenningsen Tobias Guldberg Frøslev Marie Grosjean Esteban Marentes

🍄 What lies beneath Ukraine’s soils?🧬 Two recently published datasets used DNA metabarcoding to reveal fungal diversity ...
09/10/2026

🍄 What lies beneath Ukraine’s soils?

🧬 Two recently published datasets used DNA metabarcoding to reveal fungal diversity that can be difficult to capture through traditional field surveys alone.

In 2023, researchers surveyed soil fungal communities across 225 sites in mainland Ukraine, including Carpathian montane forests and mixed forests to forest-steppe and Pontic steppe habitats.

Two molecular markers were used: ITS2 to profile the broader fungal community and SSU rDNA to specifically investigate arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. 🌱

The datasets provide a substantial, standardized snapshot of Ukraine’s soil fungal biodiversity and a valuable foundation for understanding how fungal communities vary across different ecosystems. 💚



🔗 https://gbif.link/soil-fungi-ukraine
🔗 https://gbif.link/soil-fungi-ukraine_2

📣 Attention R and python users! 🐸 The latest versions rgbif (3.9.0) and pygbif (0.7.0) have now be published!These new v...
08/10/2026

📣 Attention R and python users! 🐸 The latest versions rgbif (3.9.0) and pygbif (0.7.0) have now be published!

These new version introduce potentially breaking changes 💔 as the default taxonomy has shifted from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy to the Catalogue of Life Extended Release.

For more information, check out the migration guide:
🔗https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/rgbif-colxr-preparation/

rgbif | 🔗 https://docs.ropensci.org/rgbif/news/index.html
pygbif | 🐍 https://pygbif.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog_link.html

More GB33 and the GBIF Science Symposium snaps 📸 from last week! A huge thank you to for their incredible hospitality ...
07/10/2026

More GB33 and the GBIF Science Symposium snaps 📸 from last week!

A huge thank you to for their incredible hospitality and organization of the events. 💖

Stay tuned for a detailed wrap-up of all our Oslo events coming soon! 👀

Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)

🎥Tune in today to livestream the GBIF Science Symposium! Hosted by , this event the program spans applications of biodi...
02/10/2026

🎥Tune in today to livestream the GBIF Science Symposium!

Hosted by , this event the program spans applications of biodiversity data in Norway and globally. 🌍

Topics discussed include conservation, health and disease risk, eDNA, automated monitoring, sensors and AI. 🤖

The event will be streamed here: 🔗 https://www.gbif.no/

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