Resources

Check out the many resources and affiliations regarding biodiversity.

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About

AndBiodiversity

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Contributors

• Parfait Gasana is an economics-trained data and research analyst from the Chicago area with passionate interests in public infrastructure, energy, environment, empirical methods, and data analytics. Active on GitHub and StackOverflow communities, he is also an avid reader of global environment news and creates environment-themed data projects usually in R, Python, and SQL databases.

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Sites

• ABC | Environment

  Follow the latest Environment news, videos, and analysis from ABC News.

• AP | Climate & Environment

  The latest news from The Associated Press on climate change, threats to biodiversity and renewable energies.

• BBC | Environment

  All the latest content about Environment from the BBC.

• Britannica: Biodiversity Loss

  Encyclopedia article on biodiversity loss.

• EarthTimes

  News and blog articles about the environment and information on current environmental issues and topics affecting planet earth.

• EcoWatch

  A digital platform still dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions.

• Environmental News Network

  Aggregator of environmental news and collection of resources, teachers, experts and tools that provide objective information and knowledge about the increasingly complex field of environmental science.

• Grist

  A nonprofit media organization telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.

• The Guardian | Environment

  Latest environmental news, opinion and analysis from the Guardian

• Mongabay

  U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform

• National Geographic

  Latest stories about the environment

• NBC News | Environment

  Read about the latest headlines covering global warming, recycling, conservation efforts, pollution and more from NBCNews.com

• NPR | Environment

  Breaking news on the environment, climate change, pollution, and endangered species from NPR.

• Overshoot Day

  Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.

• PBS | Environment

  News and features on our changing environment from PBS.

• Propublica | Environment

  Environment news from an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

• Reuters | Environment

  Find latest environment news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com

• Science Daily | Environment

  Source for the latest research news

• Stanford University: MAHB

  Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) is a meeting place for global civil society — citizens concerned with the interconnections among the greatest threats to human well-being: this is the human predicament.

• Yale University: E360

  An original, independent voice in environmental journalism, E360 is an online magazine that publishes opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues.

Data

Global

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility

  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

• Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool

  The world’s most authoritative biodiversity data for your world-shaping decisions

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

  Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

• IPBES: Modelling impacts of drivers on biodiversity and ecosystems

  Primer on models of biodiversity and ecosystem function with additional resources

• IPCC: Data Distribution Centre

  The DDC provides a transparent, traceable, stable and assessable archive for the climate, socio-economic and environmental data and scenarios used in the reports and key figures produced by the IPCC.

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

  The most comprehensive information source on the global extinction risk status of animal, fungus and plant species

• Map of Life

  Map of Life assembles and integrates different sources of data describing species distributions worldwide. These data include expert species range maps, species occurrence points, ecoregions, and protected areas from providers like IUCN, WWF, GBIF, and more.

• NASA Earth Data: Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting

  NASA Earth observation data are a key component of research into the causes behind changes in biodiversity and the impacts of these changes.

• Species+

  Species+, developed by UNEP-WCMC and the CITES Secretariat, provides a centralised portal for accessing key information on species of global concern to assist Parties with implementing CITES, CMS and other multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).

• UN Biodiversity Lab

  Provides access to global spatial data to generate insight and impact for conservation and sustainable development

• Vertnet

  NSF-funded collaborative project that makes biodiversity data free and available on the web, VertNet is a tool designed to help people discover, capture, and publish biodiversity data.

• World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

  Editorial management system controlled by taxonomic and thematic experts that provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms.

• York University Ecological Footprint Initiative & Global Footprint Network

  Data materials and outputs assessing national footprint and biocapacity accounts across the world

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IUCN RedList by Kingdom and Class

Data Source

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Regional

• AADC: Antarctic Biodiversity Database

  Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) has developed a terrestrial biodiversity database that captures all recorded species observations and their locations from the Antarctic and subantarctic.

• Atlas of Living Australia

  Open Access to Australia’s biodiversity data

• NatureServe Explorer

  The definitive source for information on rare and endangered species and ecosystems in the Americas.

• NBN Atlas

  UK’s largest collection of biodiversity information

• NOAA: DIVER

  The DIVER (Data Integration, Visualization, Exploration, and Reporting) tool was developed by NOAA to support these natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) efforts.

• USA EPA: Ecoregions Maps

  Continental and conterminous US ecoregions maps and GIS datasets for spatial analysis

Plants

• BGCI: ThreatSearch Database

  The most comprehensive database of conservation assessments of plants

• Kew: Plants of the World Online

  An international collaborative programme that has as a primary aim to make available digitized data of the world’s flora gathered from the past 250 years of botanical exploration and research

• World Flora Online

  Global overview of the diversity of plant species

• World Agroforestry: Resource Centre

  Resource platform supporting the World Agroforestry research work including applications, databases, manual, models, portals, toolkits, tools, and websites.

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BGCI Plant Threat Summary by Major Group

Data Source

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Animals

• AmphibiaWeb

  Ongoing collaboration between researchers, citizen scientists, and students around the world to synthesize and share information about amphibians to enable research, education, and conservation.

• AntWeb

  AntWeb is the world’s largest online database of images, specimen records, and natural history information on ants.

• AviBase

  Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 58 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information for 20,000 regions, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more.

• BirdLife International: Data Zone

  Web portal for case studies, Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs), country profiles, and case studies regarding bird species.

• FishBase

  Global biodiversity information system on fishes, covering >35,000 fish species compiled from >59,200 references in partnership with 2,480 collaborators, >325,700 common names and >61,700 pictures.

• WWF: Living Planet Index

  Dataset contains time-series of population abundance data for vertebrate species spanning years between 1970 and 2021.

Other

• AlgaeBase

  Global algal database of taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional information.

• GlobalFungi Database

  Validated collection of published data on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface

Land

• WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions Of The World (Biomes) in ArcGIS

  ArcGIS app to explore the world’s 800+ terrestial ecoregions classified in 14 different biome types

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WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World

Data Source

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Ocean

• Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)

  Global open-access data and information clearing-house on marine biodiversity for science, conservation and sustainable

Research

Organizations

Documentaries

Videos

IPBES Global Assessment Animation: Direct Drivers of Biodiversity Loss

Greenpeace: Biodiversity loss from land use

OECD: The Impact of Nitrogen Pollution

Royal Society: Why is Biodiversity Important?

UNCCD: Desertification

World Bank: Biodiversity: Putting Nature at the Core of Development Efforts

WWF: Untangled: Biodiversity Loss

Humor

Source: Cagle

Source: Green Humour

Source: Conservation Bytes

Source: Martin PM

Source: Conservation Bytes

Source: Cartooning for Peace

Source: Ramsar

Source: Sustainability Illustrated

Source: Cagle

Source: Green Finance Observatory

Source: Cartooning for Peace

Source: Cagle

Source: Conservation Bytes

Source: Conservation Bytes

Source: Cagle

Source: Sustainability Illustrated

Source: Conservation Bytes

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Source: Green Humour

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Why And Biodiversity? To capture synergies:

	Re- forestation		Re- wilding		Sustainable Fishing		Spatial Planning		Eliminate Subsidies
	Reduce Invasive Alien Species		Reduced Pollution		Mainstreaming Biodiversity		Ecosystem Restoration		Regenerative Agriculture

| And Biodiversity

The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.

In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep in the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind…

-“Eight”
Lao Tsu
Tao Te Ching

| And Biodiversity

Sweet is the shade of the coconut glade,
and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full
o’ the moon with the sound of the voices we love;

But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray
and the dance of the wild foam’s glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge,
where the low sky mates with the sea.

-“Coromandel Fishers”
Sarojini Naidu

| And Biodiversity

A child said What is the grass?
Fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child?
I do not know what it is any more than he.

I guess it must be the flag of my disposition,
out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord
…Or I guess the grass is itself a child,
the produced babe of the vegetation.

…Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
…And now it seems to me the beautiful
uncut hair of graves.
..The smallest sprout shows
there is really no death…

-“Song of Myself”
Walt Whitman