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title: "About ARKIVE: the living archive of life on Earth"
description: "ARKIVE documents the living world: species, habitats, and the people protecting them, with sourced, current, human-edited reporting on biodiversity."
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# About ARKIVE: the living archive of life on Earth

ARKIVE is a curated publication about life on Earth: the species, the habitats they depend on, and the people working to keep them from vanishing.

**Contents**

- What ARKIVE covers
- The editorial standard
- Why it matters now
- Part of a bigger picture

Full text: https://arkive.org/t/y1eagrsk99urzqn3q8w2/