Observation.org is a worldwide platform of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists to collect, validate and share biodiversity observations.

[1] It is published and hosted in the Netherlands under Dutch and European law by the non-profit foundation Observation International.

[5] Quality assurance measures on Observation.org is managed by established species experts responsible for curating the reference set of observations.

[7][8] The observations that have been approved are shared as open data on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

[12] As of December 2023, more than 1,700 research results have been published that cite the Observation.org dataset on GBIF[13], often in the fields of ecology, conservation, climate change.