ARKive … will become an invaluable tool for all concerned with the well-being of the natural world.” Sir David Attenborough

Common frog eye © Stephen Dalton / www.nhpa.co.uk

ARKive is a not-for-profit initiative of Wildscreen, a UK charity based in Bristol, whose mission is ‘to promote the conservation of nature and public appreciation of biodiversity, through the power of wildlife imagery’. The visionary behind ARKive was the late Christopher Parsons OBE, former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit, IMAX film producer, creator of Wildwalk at-Bristol and founder of Wildscreen.

ARKive is the Noah’s Ark for the Internet era – a unique global initiative, gathering together into one centralised digital library, films, photographs and audio recordings of the world’s species.

ARKive is leading the ‘virtual’ conservation effort – finding, sorting, cataloguing and copying the key audio-visual records of the world’s animals, plants and fungi, and building them into comprehensive and enduring multi-media digital profiles.

Using film, photographs and audio recordings, ARKive is creating a unique record of the world’s biodiversity – complementing other species information datasets, and making a key resource available for scientists, conservationists, educators and the general public.