The Bishop Museum (Honolulu), with support from PBIN, facilitated the programming of the database for the web and hosts the website.

[1] In 2011 the Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust enlisted expert computer specialists to redesign its extensive online biodiversity database.

The multimedia database is designed to integrate scientific and traditional information on all the plants and animals of the Cook Islands – native and non-native; terrestrial, marine, and freshwater.

[3] The Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust has a permanent research staff of one: Gerald McCormack.

He is the lead developer of the Biodiversity Database, which is based on information from local and overseas experts, fieldwork and library research.