New York State is rich in biodiversity - the amazing array of life on earth, from genes to species to landscapes. Maintaining biodiversity is critical for it provides essential food, fiber, fuel and other products and essential services such as photosynthesis, water purification, and flood control. In short, biodiversity provides the healthy environment on which our lives depend. Yet it is seriously threatened worldwide and here in New York State by habitat destruction and degradation, invasive species, pollution, over-consumption, and global climate change. Each of these threats in linked, directly and indirectly, to human activities.

The NYS Biodiversity clearinghouse has been developed by the New York State Biodiversity Project (NYSBP) to facilitate the use of biodiversity information by New York's citizens. It has been created in response to recommendations from a biodiversity information-user's needs assessment conducted by the Environmental Law Institute for the project.

This web site is still in its preliminary development stages. Please send comments on what information you think should be made available on the New York State Biodiversity Clearinghouse web site to: [email protected]

This web site was developed by the New York State Biodiversity Project
and is maintained by the New York State Biodiversity Research Institute