14 May 07 Encyclopedia of Life
Imagine a wiki-style project where you could find absolutely all the living species in the planet with extense description, photos, videos, maps and location, etc. Well, this is what the new project EOL ( Encyclopedia of Life ) will try to do in the coming 10 years.
The idea has been launched by the Harvard University, the US Field Museum, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Smithsonian Institution and the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and will count with an assigned budget of aprox 100 million dolars over the next years. The plan is to catalog about 1.8 millions of known species on the Earth, although it has been said that what we know now is just a tiny portion ( around 10%) of the real number.
If you want to know more about the project, you can subscribe to their newsletter in the website, and follow the evolution of this big and interesting initiative!
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