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WWF WildFinder Database Request
The WildFinder database will be available for download as a Microsoft Access database. It has been compressed using WinZip (www.winzip.com) and is 8MB in size.
This database is available for use for valid scientific, conservation, and educational purposes. We ask that you credit the WildFinder data as follows:
World Wildlife Fund. WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder
Any modification of the original map by users to ecoregion boundaries, units, names, or realm and biome classes should be noted.
Please fill out the form below before downloading the database and readme files (ZIP format, 8MB)
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