UNEP-WCMC maintains information on species of conservation importance including those protected by multilateral environmental agreements. The UNEP-WCMC Species Database includes data on c. 72,000 animals and 140,000 plants of conservation interest. Sub-sets of data from the Species Database have been tailored to different user needs and can be interrogated on the web, providing differing views of the central database.

Details of the species included, search options available and the information provided for each of these are given here.

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