ARKive: Images of Life on Earth

ARKive is a global initiative to locate and gather films, photographs, and audio recordings of the world's species into one centralised digital library for the benefit of present and future generations. ARKive is sometimes described as the Noah’s Ark of the online era. ARKive is a not-for-profit initiative of Wildscreen, a UK-based charity, whose mission is to promote conservation through wildlife imagery.

The collection of mammals includes rare species, such as the Red Panda.

Each species contains a wealth of information, including Facts & Status, Range & Habitat, and Threats & Conservation.

Video Collection
ARKive contains numerous videos of the species in its collection. Here’s a sampling of some of the videos:

click the image to play the video

ARKive Education Resources
ARKive Education provides teachers with a free multimedia resource kit. This kit contains downloadable, ready to use audio-visual modules that cover a wide range of science and environmental based topics.