GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and a research foundation funded by governments around the world and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere open access to data about all types of life on the Earth.
An important part of GBIF’s mission is to promote a culture in which people recognize the benefits of publishing open-access biodiversity data, for themselves and for the broader global community.
By making your information accessible through GBIF and other biodiversity information networks, you will contribute to global knowledge about biodiversity, and also to solutions that will promote its conservation and sustainable use.
By making your information publicly available, datasets from all over the world can be combined, so researchers can work together on related tasks with a common goal.