ARKive
Sign in to savethumb|Wildscreen ARK Launch Party 2024 ARKive was a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", which it did by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive. Its priority was the completion of audio-visual profiles for the c. 17,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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- Website.name
- Wildscreen ARK
- Website.logo
- Wildscreen Ark framed logo.jpg
- Website.logo_size
- 260px
- Website.type
- Encyclopaedia
- Website.successor
- Wildscreen ARK
- Website.current_status
- Archived
- Website.author
- Wildscreen
- Website.former_name
- ARKive
- Website.creator
- Wildscreen
- Website.launch_date
- February 2024
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thumb|Wildscreen ARK Launch Party 2024 ARKive was a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", which it did by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive. Its priority was the completion of audio-visual profiles for the c. 17,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The project was an initiative of Wildscreen, a UK-registered educational charity, based in Bristol. The technical platform was created by Hewlett-Packard, as part of the HP Labs' Digital Media Systems research programme.