gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server

An MCP server that enables agents to search the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) backbone taxonomy, occurrence records, datasets, and publishers. It supports matching scientific names, fetching taxon classifications, searching billions of occurrence records with Darwin Core filters, and retrieving dataset metadata.

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by cyanheads

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What you can do with it

Match scientific names to the GBIF backbone taxonomy
Search 3.9B+ occurrence records by taxon, place, or date
Fetch full dataset metadata including citation and license
Aggregate occurrence counts by country, year, or taxon

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.7.7

mcp-registry: io.github.cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server@0.7.7 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

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@cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server 0.7.7

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@cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server package definition

{
  "version": "0.7.7",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "true",
      "description": "Clamp oversized read requests to their documented caps; false restores rejecting maxima."
    },
    {
      "name": "MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "info",
      "description": "Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')."
    },
    {
      "name": "GBIF_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "https://api.gbif.org/v1",
      "description": "Base URL every GBIF API request is built from. Override to route through a proxy or a mirror of the GBIF v1 API."
    },
    {
      "name": "GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "10000",
      "description": "Milliseconds a single GBIF API request may take before it is aborted. Aborted attempts fall to the service's retry policy."
    },
    {
      "name": "GBIF_USER_AGENT",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Sent as the User-Agent header on every GBIF API request. GBIF asks integrators to identify themselves with a contact URL or email. Unset or blank sends the server name, version, and repository URL."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server@0.7.7"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS": "<YOUR_GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "GBIF_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_GBIF_BASE_URL>",
        "GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS>",
        "GBIF_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_GBIF_USER_AGENT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server@0.7.7"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS": "<YOUR_GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "GBIF_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_GBIF_BASE_URL>",
        "GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS>",
        "GBIF_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_GBIF_USER_AGENT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server@0.7.7"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS": "<YOUR_GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "GBIF_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_GBIF_BASE_URL>",
        "GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS>",
        "GBIF_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_GBIF_USER_AGENT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/gbif-biodiversity-mcp-server@0.7.7"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS": "<YOUR_GBIF_CLAMP_READ_LIMITS>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "GBIF_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_GBIF_BASE_URL>",
        "GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_GBIF_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS>",
        "GBIF_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_GBIF_USER_AGENT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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