East Africa · Biodiversity occurrence catalogue
GBIF East Africa
Explore biodiversity occurrence records and the datasets documenting East Africa.
Compare country catalogues
Occurrence records and species represented. Open a country to explore its catalogue.
Country coverage across East Africa. Sorted by occurrences (high to low).
Kenya
#1 · 37.7% regional share
- Occurrences
- 5,966,499
- Species
- 38,746
- Datasets
- 1,757
Tanzania
#2 · 21.8% regional share
- Occurrences
- 3,453,684
- Species
- 44,502
- Datasets
- 1,716
Uganda
#3 · 17.2% regional share
- Occurrences
- 2,725,570
- Species
- 22,786
- Datasets
- 1,086
DR Congo
#4 · 10.1% regional share
- Occurrences
- 1,599,911
- Species
- 39,277
- Datasets
- 1,232
Ethiopia
#5 · 7.9% regional share
- Occurrences
- 1,246,475
- Species
- 18,533
- Datasets
- 1,095
Rwanda
#6 · 3.3% regional share
- Occurrences
- 528,869
- Species
- 9,708
- Datasets
- 534
Burundi
#7 · 1.0% regional share
- Occurrences
- 152,270
- Species
- 7,588
- Datasets
- 435
Somalia
#8 · 0.6% regional share
- Occurrences
- 100,526
- Species
- 9,837
- Datasets
- 659
South Sudan
#9 · 0.2% regional share
- Occurrences
- 37,416
- Species
- 3,683
- Datasets
- 182
Counts describe published occurrence records and documentation effort, not wildlife abundance.
Latest monthly changes
- Occurrence records
- -674,847
- Country species counts
- +405
- Country dataset counts
- +65
Additions by country
Country breakdown
- KEKenya-240,640 records
- UGUganda-201,219 records
- TZTanzania-154,371 records
- ETEthiopia-67,846 records
- RWRwanda-32,679 records
- CDDemocratic Republic of the Congo+15,035 records
- BIBurundi+5,494 records
- SSSouth Sudan+1,777 records
- SOSomalia-398 records
About the regional catalogue
What these records describe and how to explore them.
What’s in the catalogue?
GBIF brings together records published by museums, herbaria, researchers, and observation projects. Country pages show taxonomic groups, collection methods, reported regions, and contributing datasets.
How to read the changes
Catalogue counts can increase or decrease as publishers add, revise, or remove records. Species and dataset changes are summed across countries; they are not counts of unique additions across the region.
Snapshot 2026-11-01-api · source data through 2026-11-01T08:09:32.040619Z
Data source GBIF Occurrence API