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October 07, 2025 / by Olaf Banki & Camila Plata

A more comprehensive Catalogue of Life now Live!

Now extended with 17500 data sources

July 09, 2025 / by Camila Plata & Olaf Bánki

Catalogue of Life 2025

The catalogue has grown by 2%, with 48,766 newly accepted species names added.

July 04, 2025 / by Geoff Ower & Dmitry Mozzherin

Biodiversity Heritage Library's Call for Support & integration with COL

BHL is seeking new hosting partners

March 27, 2025 / by Markus Döring

COL DOIs & ORCIDs

Adding COL releases as works to your ORCID profile

March 04, 2025 / by Olaf Bánki

Meet the Libroscope

A new vision for ‘liberating’ data from biodiversity publications

November 05, 2024 / by Yuri Roskov

The first data manager of the Catalogue of Life

A tribute to Monalisa (Mona) Cachuela-Palacio

June 27, 2024 / by Olaf Bánki

Annual Release 2024

Annual release 2024 of the Catalogue of Life

January 16, 2024 / by Olaf Bánki

GBIF to serve as administrative host for Species 2000 Secretariat

Agreement between GBIF Secretariat and the Catalogue of Life’s legal body will support further collaboration on ChecklistBank and other joint activities

December 12, 2023 / by Olaf Bánki

Catalogue of Life recognised as a Global Core Biodata Resource

A congratulations to the Catalogue of Life consortium!

June 27, 2023 / by Olaf Bánki

Annual Release 2023

Annual release 2023 of the Catalogue of Life

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