South African Biodiversity Information Facility (SABIF)

The SABIF aims to contribute to South Africa's sustainable development by facilitating access to biodiversity and related information on the Internet. In doing this, the SABIF will contribute to a co-ordinated international scientific effort to enable users throughout the world to discover and put to use vast quantities of global biodiversity data. South Africa, as a voting member of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), has established SABIF as a national node to the GBIF. The SABIF Portal will therefore serve as the country's national gateway to open and free scientific biodiversity information on the Internet.