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
- 6,207,139
- Species
- 38,637
- Datasets
- 1,745
Tanzania
#2 · 21.9% regional share
- Occurrences
- 3,608,055
- Species
- 44,440
- Datasets
- 1,704
Uganda
#3 · 17.8% regional share
- Occurrences
- 2,926,789
- Species
- 22,766
- Datasets
- 1,080
DR Congo
#4 · 9.6% regional share
- Occurrences
- 1,584,876
- Species
- 39,188
- Datasets
- 1,226
Ethiopia
#5 · 8.0% regional share
- Occurrences
- 1,314,321
- Species
- 18,488
- Datasets
- 1,084
Rwanda
#6 · 3.4% regional share
- Occurrences
- 561,548
- Species
- 9,685
- Datasets
- 529
Burundi
#7 · 0.9% regional share
- Occurrences
- 146,776
- Species
- 7,561
- Datasets
- 428
Somalia
#8 · 0.6% regional share
- Occurrences
- 100,924
- Species
- 9,815
- Datasets
- 656
South Sudan
#9 · 0.2% regional share
- Occurrences
- 35,639
- Species
- 3,675
- Datasets
- 179
Counts describe published occurrence records and documentation effort, not wildlife abundance.
Latest monthly changes
- Occurrence records
- +17,573
- Country species counts
- +310
- Country dataset counts
- +34
Additions by country
Country breakdown
- KEKenya+4,279 records
- TZTanzania+4,169 records
- ETEthiopia+2,937 records
- SOSomalia+2,623 records
- UGUganda+1,527 records
- BIBurundi+907 records
- RWRwanda+528 records
- CDDemocratic Republic of the Congo+513 records
- SSSouth Sudan+90 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 2026-10-01-api · source data through 2026-10-01T08:10:08.032646Z
Data source GBIF Occurrence API