MCP MCP server · io.github.cyanheads
io.github.cyanheads/gbif-mcp-server
Search GBIF species taxonomy, occurrence records, datasets, and publishers.
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An MCP server exposing 13 tools for querying GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. It covers backbone taxonomy matching and browsing, occurrence record search and aggregation, and dataset/publisher lookup, over stdio or streamable-http transport.
It gives your MCP client direct, credential-free access to GBIF's taxonomy and billions of occurrence records without leaving your workflow.
Use it to
- Match scientific names against the GBIF backbone, singly or in bulk
- Search and filter billions of occurrence records with Darwin Core filters
- Aggregate occurrence counts via facets
- Browse taxonomic classification and child taxa
- Find datasets and publishers by keyword, country, or organization
For Developers building biodiversity-aware AI agents and tools
- Runs
- both
- Transport
- streamable-http, stdio
- Tools
- 13
- Packaged as
- npm:@cyanheads/gbif-mcp-server
- Install
- npx -y @cyanheads/gbif-mcp-server
- Needs
- 6 environment variables
- Version
- 0.1.7
- Last release
- 2026-08-30
topicsbiodiversitytaxonomyoccurrence-datagbifmcp-serveropen-data