Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
The largest animal that has ever lived
04 · Nature Library
One living planet, every species named.
One living planet: forests, oceans, deserts and ice hold the species that every people has named, grown and protected. Animals, plants, fungi, remedies, ecosystems, oceans, climate and the sky.
Sources in every card · References
01The map of nature
The living wonders, on one map.
14 natural wonders of the one bioregion, forests, reefs, savannas and ice, with the line between day and night, live. Press ▶ to fly from wonder to wonder; every point opens its card in the Atlas.
Fly through nature: press ▶ to fly
Every card is placed where its own place line says; a region is marked at one representative point. Base maps © Esri and OpenStreetMap contributors · continents: Natural Earth (public domain).
02Library of Nature
Animals, plants and remedies.
Eighteen entries that every people has named, grown and protected, each with its scientific name.
Nothing here matches yet. Ask the librarian.
African elephant
Loxodonta africana
Keeper of savanna and forest paths
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Guardian of the American forests
Snow leopard
Panthera uncia
Lives on the roof of the world
Monarch butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Crosses a continent every year
Emperor penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
Breeds in the Antarctic winter
Maize
Zea mays
Domesticated in Mexico about 9,000 years ago
Rice
Oryza sativa
Feeds more than half of humanity
Wheat
Triticum aestivum
Grain of the Fertile Crescent
Baobab
Adansonia digitata
The tree of life of Africa
Giant sequoia
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Among the largest living trees
Cacao
Theobroma cacao
The food of the gods of Mesoamerica
Willow
Salix alba
Its bark gave the world salicin, the road to aspirin
Neem
Azadirachta indica
The village pharmacy of South Asia
Ginseng
Panax ginseng
Ancient root of East Asian medicine
Aloe
Aloe vera
Traditionally used for the skin
Quinine tree
Cinchona officinalis
Andean bark against fever
Chamomile
Matricaria chamomilla
Traditionally used as a calming tea
03World Species
Land, sea, sky and forest.
51 species of the one bioregion, from the blue whale to the coral that builds cities in the sea.
Nothing here matches yet. Ask the librarian.
African elephant
Loxodonta africana
The largest land animal; keeper of savanna paths.
Jaguar
Panthera onca
Guardian of the American forests.
Giant panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Bamboo forests of Sichuan.
Kangaroo
Osphranter rufus
Red kangaroo of the Australian deserts.
Snow leopard
Panthera uncia
The mountains of Central Asia.
Resplendent quetzal
Pharomachrus mocinno
Baird's tapir
Tapirus bairdii
Xunan kab bee
Melipona beecheii
Black howler monkey
Alouatta pigra
Axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum
Mexican wolf
Canis lupus baileyi
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
The largest animal that has ever lived.
Sea turtle
Chelonia mydas
Returns to the beach where it was born.
Coral
Acropora spp.
Builder of reefs, cities of the sea.
Octopus
Octopus vulgaris
Eight arms and a curious mind.
Manta ray
Mobula birostris
Glides through tropical oceans.
Whale shark
Rhincodon typus
Hawksbill turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata
West Indian manatee
Trichechus manatus
Elkhorn coral
Acropora palmata
Queen conch
Aliger gigas
Vaquita
Phocoena sinus
Gray whale
Eschrichtius robustus
Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Totoaba
Totoaba macdonaldi
Baobab
Adansonia digitata
The tree of life of Africa.
Maize
Zea mays
The grain of the Americas.
Rice
Oryza sativa
Feeds more than half of humanity.
Lotus
Nelumbo nucifera
Sacred flower of Asia.
Cacao
Theobroma cacao
The food of the gods.
Ceiba
Ceiba pentandra
Sapodilla
Manilkara zapota
Ramón
Brosimum alicastrum
Agave
Agave spp.
Nopal
Opuntia ficus-indica
Cempasúchil
Tagetes erecta
Ahuehuete
Taxodium mucronatum
Fly agaric
Amanita muscaria
The red mushroom of northern forests.
Honey fungus
Armillaria ostoyae
One of the largest living organisms on Earth.
Shiitake
Lentinula edodes
Grown in East Asia for a thousand years.
Penicillium
Penicillium rubens
The mould that gave the world penicillin.
Mycorrhiza
Glomeromycota
The underground web that feeds forests.
Huitlacoche
Ustilago maydis
Indigo milk cap
Lactarius indigo
Pink oyster mushroom
Pleurotus djamor
Sacred mushrooms
Psilocybe spp.
Wood ear
Auricularia spp.
Teonanácatl
Psilocybe mexicana
Mexican Caesar
Amanita basii
Chanterelle
Cantharellus spp.
04Words of nature
The terms of the library.
Every concept is a term, connected, in every language, with its sources.
- Bioregion
- A region defined by nature — water, soil, climate, species — rather than by borders.
- Biome
- A large community of life shaped by climate: rainforest, desert, tundra, coral reef.
- NEOLEDGE
- The knowledge NEO shares, generates, organizes and spreads: every concept a term, connected, in every language, with its sources.