Welcome to the BHL Wikimedia portal!

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Its mutualistic partnership with the Wikimedia community centers around making biodiversity knowledge accessible to everyone on Earth. Collaborate curating metadata on Wikidata, reuse the content to improve Wikipedia, or just browse the beautiful image collections on Commons.

The Biodiversity Heritage Treasure

What is BHL?

Find out what Biodiversity Heritage means and the history and mission of BHL.

About

Participate in the activities

Check the open tasks of the BHL-Wiki group and help us fill the gaps.

Contribute

Members & partners

BHL is a global community for biodiversity knowledge.

Our community

Browse our collections

The BHL-Wiki partnership has contributed with over 300.000 open media files! Find all the files, collections, and subcategories from the Biodiversity Heritage Library Wikimedia initiative in the Commons BHL category.

BHL in South America

BHL in Africa

Under the Sea World Oceans Day

Rarest of the Rare

Notable Women in Natural History

And more!

Quick contribution

Click below to find a random Biodiversity Heritage Library image, identify its species, add details to the description or Structured Data, and reuse it on Wikidata or Wikipedia. Learn more on the "Get Involved" page.

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