The Cook Islands Biodiversity and Ethnobiology Database recently added 338 new species, including four new intertidal air-breathing limpets, the Erythrina Borer moth not recorded in 90 years, and a mysterious moth never seen before, writes Gerald McCormack of the Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust.
The Cook Islands Biodiversity and Ethnobiology Database (CIBED) has been online since 2003 through the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. After several years of restructuring, it reopened in 2023 for the addition of new species at its new home address: https://naturalheritage.gov.ck/
The Natural Heritage Trust was established under an Act of Parliament in 1999 to record the traditional and scientific information on local plants and animals, both marine and terrestrial.
