The world lives amid the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs perished 65 million years ago and most of this loss is caused by human activities. Habitat loss, the introduction of exotic species through trade and travel, and climate change all contribute to biodiversity decline.

BiodiversLife.comis a web portal to nearly 200 reviewed mega biodiversity databases and Biodiversity News. Here you will find all you need about wildlife conservation, flora and fauna loss, hot spots and maps, ecology and ecosystems, endangered species, terrestrial and marine biodiversity, habitat information and even the occasional good news story!

Also below a list of books about Biodiversity to continue our Diamond Acre series. A link to the Biodiverse Life Book Shop can be found Here.

USA Biodiversity Books
Canda Biodiversity Books
UK Biodiversity Books

 

Digital Morphology, part of the National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative, develops and serves unique 2D and 3D visualizations of the internal and external structure of living and extinct vertebrates, and a growing number of 'invertebrates'. The Digital Morphology library contains nearly a terabyte of imagery of natural history specimens that are important to education and central to ongoing cutting-edge research efforts. More

Tree of Life Web Project  containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other. The Tree of Life is a collaborative Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. This is one of the portals for access to its resources . More

Antbase-  Antbase now provides for the first time access to all the ant species of the world, one of the ecologically most important groups of animals worldwide. Antbase is a collaborative effort between scientists from around the world, aiming at providing the best possible access to the wealth of information on ants, to fulfil the conservation needs of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), and the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN)

Hexacorallians of the World! What a fantastic site name. Sea anemones, corals and their allies is the focus of this site which contains inventories of type, specimens, distribution maps and images, expedition details etc. Isn't it about time that you snuggled-up a bit closer to a Hexacorallian? Good job, gatherers of Hexacorallian data......... More

FishBase is a massive informationsystem with key data on the biology of all fishes. Similar to an ncyclopaedia, FishBase contains different things for different people. More

HerpNET http://herpnet.org/is a collaborative effort by natural history museums to establish a global network of herpetological collections data, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF No. 0132303) and a GBIF DIGIT grant. Sixty-four institutionsjoin. Currently 56 institutions are available on the specimen searching portal, with data from over 5.5 million specimens available for searching.  are participating in the HerpNET community, with an open ended invitation to institutions who would like to

Algaebase- Where would we be without algae? This site lists 121, 873 species and infraspecific names in it's database. 5,617images, 37,873 bibliographic items, 136,905 distributional records. Thank you. Respect to you Algaebase crew! Go the Algae and prosper! More http://www.algaebase.org/