This project conducted between June 2019 and December 2020 jointly by the National Museum of Natural History (France) and the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium) with the financial and operational support of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the operational support of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and GBIF France and Belgium, together with the close collaboration of the Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) and GBIF teams from 8 partner countries of the project: Benin, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Madagascar, Niger, Togo, Guinea, and Mauritania.