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GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organization that is working to make the world's biodiversity data accessible anywhere in the world. GBIF encourages, coordinates and supports the development of worldwide capacity to access the biodiversity data held in natural history museum collections, libraries and databanks.
http://www.gbif.org/

Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species
Created to ease and increase information and knowledge exchange in the field of underutilized and neglected species.
http://www.underutilized-species.org/Default.asp

GRIN TAXONOMY - Germplasm Resources Information Network
GRIN taxonomic data provide the structure and nomenclature for accessions of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), part of the National Genetic Resources Program (NGRP) of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/index.pl

ILDIS - International Legume Database and Information Service
ILDIS is an international project which aims to document and catalogue the world's legume species diversity in a readily accessible form.
http://www.ildis.org/

IPNI - International Plant Names Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies.
http://www.ipni.org/index.html

ISRIC - World Soil Information
ISRIC - World Soil Information is an independent foundation with a global mandate, funded by the Netherlands Government. We have a strategic association with Wageningen University and Research Centre.
http://www.isric.org/

IUCN Red List
Coordinates the production of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, which provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria
http://www.redlist.org/

IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
The SSC is a science-based network of some 7,000 volunteer experts from almost every country of the world, all working together towards achieving the vision of "A world that values and conserves present levels of biodiversity."
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/