The Belgian Biodiversity Platform is the national node of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Our mission is to foster biodiversity research that contributes to sustainable development, by:

• Facilitating access to biodiversity data, science and research information.
• Encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation amongst scientists.
• Stimulating interaction between scientists, policy makers and stakeholders in biodiversity research.
• Advising on the designation of biodiversity research priorities.
• Promoting Belgian biodiversity research at international fora.

The aim of this Belgian Data Portal is to provide a means to explore GBIF data (species occurrences based on collection specimens or observations) pertaining to Belgium to our research community.

Visit our main portal for further information about who we are and what we are doing.

• Belgian Science Policy
• Catalogue of Life - 2010 Annual Checklist
• European Environment Agency
• GBIF

The following tools, among others, were used to develop this website :

• The Ruby on Rails web framework.
• OpenLayers, a dynamic map viewer from the The Open Source Geospatial Foundation.
• The PostgreSQL object-relational database system with its PostGIS extension.

Some icons on this website are part of the Silk Icons Set, thanks to Mark James. They are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.