MALAWI BIODIVERSITY PORTAL API

Innovative approach to access biodiversity data.

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Access current biodiversity data for any location in the malawi including over 1000 species, and 20,000 occurrences, 200 waterbodies, 1000 farms. We collect and process biodiversity data from different sources such as Waterbodies, farms, Different Publishers, Existing research and many others. Data is available in JSON, XML, or HTML format.

Please sign up and use our fast and easy-to-work biodiversity APIs for free. Look at our documentation below for different options that we provide you.


Our API provides you with the following:

How to use our API

Use the guide below carefully to obtain the required data from the portal. Note that, in order to use this api, you must signup into the portal as a developer. Once the administrators approve your account, you will be sent an API key to your personal email, which you will use on every API call to access the json data you have requested for.

If you forgot your API, you can ask for a rest . this process will lead to a generation of a new API key which will be sent to your email after review of the request.


The URLs below are the API calls you are previlleged to make once you have a key. each api call returns filtered data depending on the constraint provided.
{api key} will be replaced by your API Key. All other prompts enclosed in { } require your Input to access data.

Our API can be used using the following URLs

  1. Dataset details Links
  2. Occurrence details Links
  3. Publisher details List
  4. Specie Details links
  5. Farm details links
  6. Waterbody details links
Citation
Malawi Biodiversity Portal . www.malawibiodiversity.go.mw
Contact

Lilongwe university of Agriculture and Natural Resources(LUANAR)
P.O Box 219 Lilongwe, Malawi
Email: pro@bunda.luanar.mw
Contact No.: +(265) 01 277 222/260