The All Species Foundation seeks to catalog all species on Earth by 2025. It began in 2001 as a spinoff of the Long Now Foundation. Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, the World or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ... 2025 (MMXXV) will be a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is a private organization that seeks to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. ...

Given current rates of extinction, it seems likely they may succeed, as deforestation drastically reduces the number of species in the wild. Many are destroyed long before they can be cataloged and given names. The Dodo, shown here in illustration, is an often-cited[1] example of extinction. ... Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non-forest land use such as arable land, urban use, logged area or wasteland. ...

This encyclopedia itself has this goal; see species, biology and zoology. In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ... Biology (from Greek βίος λόγος, see below) is the branch of science dealing with the study of living organisms. ... Zoology is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...

See also

• Rosetta Project
• ecological crisis
• ecoregion
• ecozone

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone to last from 2000 to 2100. ... An ecological crisis occurs when the environment of a species or a population changes in a way that destablizes its continued survival. ... An ecoregion, sometimes called a bioregion, is a relatively large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities. ... Ecozones are global divisions which have their own characteristic interplay of climatic factors, morphodynamics, soil-forming processes, living conditions for plants and animals, and production potentials for agriculture and forestry. ...

External link

• All Species Foundation official web