May 24th, 2007

Encyclopedia Of Life

Posted by Alex Payson at 9:03 am

How does a website that has a separate page for every species on earth sound?

An ambitious project to do just this had recently been started. Freely available to the public, the Encyclopedia of Life is scheduled to have its initial species pages working by the middle of next year. With a little bit of work, they hope to have 1.8 million species listed within ten years (this is a popular estimate of the number of species on earth).

So far they have several demonstration pages available at their website www.eol.org. Knowledge may not be the only answer to our problems, but projects like this can make a great start and are exactly what the internet is for. Good luck!

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