As a member of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Canada is exploring new ways to improve the organization, exchange, correlation, and availability of primary data on biological species of interest to Canadians. By enhancing access to these data, CBIF provides a valuable resource that supports a wide range of social and economic decisions including efforts to conserve our biodiversity in healthy ecosystems, use our biological resources in sustainable ways, and monitor and control pests and diseases.

EIONET is a collaborative network of the European Environment Agency and its Member Countries, connecting National Focal Points in the EU and accession countries, European Topic Centres, National Reference Centres, and Main Component Elements. These organisations jointly provide the information that is used for making decisions for improving the state of environment in Europe and making EU policies more effective. EIONET is both a network of organisations and a electronic network (e-EIONET).

It is a union of likeminded organisations that are collaborating to create an information network of biodiversity data that is accessible through the Internet. By providing easy access to the information people need about wildlife, wise and informed decisions can be made to ensure our natural environment is diverse, rich and sustainable now and for future generations.

Collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry.

The Nature Conservancy is one of the leading conservation organizations working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

NatureServe is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action. NatureServe represents an international network of biological inventories, known as natural heritage programs or conservation data centers, operating in all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. The NatureServe network is a leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems. Together we collect and manage detailed local information on plants, animals, and ecosystems, and develop information products, data management tools, and conservation services to help meet local, national, and global conservation needs. NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems. NatureServe has been established as an international thematic focal point under the CHM (see: <a href=" http://www.biodiv.org/chm/tfp.asp">http://www.biodiv.org/chm/tfp.asp</a>)

nforMEA harvests COP decisions, news, events, membership, national focal points and reports from MEAs. Information is organised by terms from MEA COP agendas. InforMEA is a project of the MEA Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Initiative with the support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

THE WORLD OCEAN OBSERVATORY is an Internet-based place of exchange for ocean information, educational services, and public discourse about the ocean defined as an "integrated, global, social system," thereby relating the ocean to climate, biodiversity, fresh water, food, energy, human health, trade, transportation, policy, governance, finance, coastal development, and cultural traditions.

The World Biodiversity Information Network (REMIB: Red Mundial Informacion sobre biodiversidad) is a computerized biological information system (i.e., it includes databases of curatorial, taxonomic, ecological, cartographic, bibliographic, ethnobiological and use type, and catalogues of natural resources and other topics) based on a decentralized inter-institutional academic organization formed by research centers and universities, both public and private, that possess both scientific biological collections and information banks.