GBIF Germany: Activity Report 2025

The international initiative Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) provides free and permanent access to scientific data and information on global biodiversity.

The annual GBIF Activity Report Germany for 2025 was recently published: Last year, 23.7 million new observation and collection data records from German organizations were made available to the GBIF network (www.gbif.org). With 16 million mobilized georeferenced individual data records out of a total of over 82 million data records, the SNSB continues to rank second among German data suppliers, surpassed only by the citizen science project NABU|naturgucker.

In 2025, around 100 billion downloads of the 82 million georeferenced distribution data records were listed. The data comes from 252 countries and has been used for a variety of research projects. Among the 50 German organizations that supply data to GBIF, the SNSB occupies a special position with 45.8 billion downloads of its 16 million hosted observation and collection data. This confirms the SNSB’s strategy of dynamically connecting only quality-assured, well-documented, and long-term curated data sets to the network.

The SNSB has been involved with GBIF for more than 15 years, and all mobilized data is managed in Diversity Workbench instances. The SNSB IT Center is ready to publish further data sets from the SNSB collections via established workflows. GBIF.org is the largest global network for biodiversity data. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) was founded in 1999 on the basis of an OECD recommendation and is funded by governments worldwide. Thanks to GBIF’s global positioning and scientific infrastructure, anyone interested anywhere in the world has free and unlimited access to information on the occurrence of a wide variety of animal, plant, and fungus species at any time.

Contact
Tanja Weibulat
SNSB IT-Center – Data Scientist and Research Data Curator
Phone: 089 17861-304
Email: weibulat@snsb.de