French Biodiversity
Millions of citizen observations map the living world across France.
Every year, millions of species observations are recorded across France by amateur and professional naturalists, then contributed to global databases. Visualised together, they reveal concentrations, absences, ecological corridors. This map invites you to filter by major taxonomic group and by season, to see how life occupies and crosses the territory.
Show the data as a table
| Group | Winter | Spring | Summer | Autumn | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birds | 9,733,913 | 15,853,374 | 8,998,394 | 7,496,658 | 42,082,339 |
| Mammals | 491,203 | 1,319,805 | 2,861,139 | 1,268,116 | 5,940,263 |
| Reptiles and amphibians | 86,039 | 744,332 | 426,007 | 153,388 | 1,409,766 |
| Insects | 1,763,344 | 5,782,498 | 9,590,237 | 3,359,291 | 20,495,370 |
| Plants | 2,227,395 | 11,098,991 | 15,686,827 | 4,681,049 | 33,694,262 |
| Fungi | 60,789 | 113,463 | 127,831 | 249,486 | 551,569 |
| All groups | 14,362,683 | 34,912,463 | 37,690,435 | 17,207,988 | 104,173,569 |
Data sources
- GBIF Occurrence Data (France, group × season aggregation)
- GBIF Occurrence Data (France, species dominance)
Download the prepared data: hexbins.json (427.1 kB)
Files as the visualization uses them. Reuse remains subject to the licenses of the sources above.
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