ARKive is the 21st Century Noah's Ark, harnessing the latest in digital technology to bring together, for the first time, the world's most important nature films, photographs & sound recordings, then using them to build vivid and fact-backed portraits of Earth's endangered plants and animals.
It's 150 years now since the first wildlife photo was taken, and wildlife has been a subject for filmmakers' for almost a century. However the surviving images are scattered all over the world, in many different locations, often where access is limited, or where their value to science and learning, is not yet fully appreciated.
ARKive's aim is to gather and conserve the most important sounds and images
for posterity before they - like the species some depict - are lost forever.
It's already too late to save certain species from extinction. But ARKive
will provide future generations with a window onto Earth's biodiversity, helping
to ignite the very first spark of interest in natural history whilst safeguarding
a valuable part of our visual and audio heritage, too.
To find out more, visit the free-to-view website: www.arkive.org