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Endangered Species Program editor's pick popular

http://www.fws.gov/endangered/

information on threatened and endangered species in the United States from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Added: Feb. 01, 2004 | Rate It

NatureServe - Knowledge to Protect the Diversity of Life editor's pick popular

http://www.natureserve.org/

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

provides a scientific basis for effective conservation action, with information about North American rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems
Added: Mar. 07, 2001 | Rate It

Encyclopedia of Life editor's pick

http://www.eol.org/

an online reference source and database that seeks to provide information on each of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet
Added: Feb. 27, 2008 | Rate It

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), The editor's pick

http://www.gbif.org/

seeks to design, implement, co-ordinate, and promote the compilation, linking, standardisation, digitisation and global dissemination of the world’s biodiversity data
Added: Jul. 13, 2002 | Rate It

eNature.com popular

http://www.enature.com/home/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a searchable database for identifying more than 4,000 plant and animal species of North America
Added: Sep. 14, 2001 | Rate It

Animal Diversity Web

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan
Added: Mar. 03, 2005 | Rate It

Biodiversity Heritage Library

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/About.aspx

major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined in developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections, to be made available through a global “biodiversity commons”
Added: Jun. 22, 2007 | Rate It

Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas

http://www.ice.ucdavis.edu/bioinventory/bioinventory.html

a databases of vascular plant and vertebrate animal occurrences on the world's biosphere reserves and other protected areas from the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programs of UNESCO
Added: Jan. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Botanic Gardens Conservation International updated

http://www.bgci.org/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides a gateway to the world's botanical gardens, brings them together to work for plant conservation through science, education and horticulture
Added: Feb. 06, 2006 | Rate It

Catalogue of Life

http://www.catalogueoflife.org/search.php

2007 annual checklist indexing the world's known species
Added: Apr. 16, 2007 | Rate It

European Topic Centre on Biodiversity

http://biodiversity.eionet.europa.eu/

assists the European Environment Agency in its work of collecting, analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing information relevant to national and international policies for the environment and sustainable development
Added: May. 17, 2002 | Rate It

Illustrated Database of Mexican Biodiversity

http://www.vivanatura.org/

10 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

focuses upon nature conservation and Mexican fauna, flora and ecosystems; with many photographs that illustrate the biological richness of the neotropics
Added: Jul. 03, 2002 | Rate It

Integrated Taxonomic Information System

http://www.itis.gov/

authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, and microbes of North America and the world
Added: Jul. 27, 2002 | Rate It

International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases

http://www.tdwg.org/

provides an international forum for biological data projects while developing and promoting the use of standards to facilitate data exchange
Added: Jul. 27, 2002 | Rate It

National Biodiversity Network Gateway

http://www.searchnbn.net/

allows you to view distribution maps and download UK wildlife data by using a variety of interactive tools
Added: Sep. 17, 2006 | Rate It

National Biological Information Infrastructure

http://www.nbii.gov/

provides increased access to data and information on America's biological resources
Added: Feb. 01, 2001 | Rate It

Plants National Database - USDA

http://plants.usda.gov/

a single source of standardized information about plants focusing on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories
Added: Jan. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Species 2000 -- Indexing the world's known species

http://www.sp2000.org/

9 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

has the objective of enumerating all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity
Added: Jan. 26, 2001 | Rate It

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