ARKive was a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", which it did by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive. Its priority was the completion of audio-visual profiles for the c. 17,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. More information...
In June 2020 the website arkive.org was on the 4,225th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 1,739th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "arkive.org" is the 2,921st most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before usmint.gov and after dvidshub.net in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
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