An initiative of The Wildscreen Trust, ARKive will be the world's electronic archive of photographs, moving pictures and sounds of endangered species and habitats. It will relate closely to the Red Data Books and the work of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC). In parallel, ARKive will create the "British Chapter" - a comprehensive audio-visual record of this country's biodiversity. This is the first stage of an exciting, long-term project and the database is still limited.