Environmental Activities

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Information on all the planet's 1.9 million known species in one place. Free to use and share.

It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world. It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text.

Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth, available everywhere.

Finding Media on EOL

EOL's video collection of over 9,000 videos (and growing) is an unparalleled opportunity not only to see life on Earth but watch it in action!

Search for videos on individual taxon pages in the Media tab or use EOL's filterable search tool to see all videos on EOL. Feel free to reuse EOL's videos for your own purposes under the Creative Commons license or add your own videos to EOL's collection and help build EOL. To get started check out these video features on EOL.

Bird Videos
Watch an owl in flight, learn about bird behavior or just marvel at the amazing world of birds. Start with this collection or see all of our bird videos on the Birds media page.

Marine Videos
Gaze at clownfish as they swim around a giant anemone, watch a school of unicorn fish swim by or see a slipper lobster wave it's

Narrated Videos
Watch, listen and learn with narrated insect videos from Natural History Services (NHS).

EOL Video Collections
Explore many of the video Collections on EOL. These can be useful for classroom activities or sheer enjoyment!

EOL Informational Videos

Public Downloads

All items are free to view, share, and download.

When available, we provide all our content with a Spanish version in our public download section. You can find additional material from sources listed in all our articles.