Many of the world’s leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens will have multi-media access to all known living species, even those that have just been discovered.

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The Encyclopedia of Life will not be a new competitor to Wikipedia but will offer more Science topics, where Wikipedia is quite unapproachable.

Look at the intro movie here.