Linking to content on ARKive

• Would you like to embed ARKive content in your website?
• Would you like to link to an individual photo or video?
• Would you like to share our resource with your website or blog visitors?
• Would you like to link to a large number of species pages on ARKive?
• Got a question about linking to ARKive content?
• Useful nature and conservation links

Would you like to embed ARKive content in your website?

ARKive API

To embed ARKive content in your website (including large images), we recommend you use the ARKive API.

Terms of use: Please note the ARKive API is only available to non-commercial education and conservation organisations.

Would you like to link to an individual photo or video?

"Portlet" image and video links

We provide code for you to copy and paste to your site to create thumbnail image links.

Below is a quick and easy way to create thumbnail photo and video links to ARKive on your website or blog.

1. Go to the species page with the photo or video that you are interested in, for instance, a tiger video.
2. Click “link to this image” / “link to this video” towards the bottom right hand side of the photo or video.
3. A popup with code will appear which you can select, copy and paste into the html of your website.

Terms of use: ARKive image links may be used for private, scientific, conservation or educational purposes only. They can NOT be used on commercial websites. They can NOT be used within apps.

Would you like to share our resource with your website or blog visitors?

Text links

Text links to http://www.arkive.org/ will direct visitors to the homepage of the ARKive website. You may want to add more information about the ARKive project. Here is some suggested text:

• ARKive – endangered species photos, videos and facts.
• ARKive is the definitive collection of films, photographs and facts on the world’s threatened species – free to use and an essential conservation communication tool.

If you would like to create a text link to a deeper page, we suggest the following format:

To link to species pages:
*Species name* fact file on ARKive
or
*Species name* photos, videos and facts on ARKive

To link to topic pages:
*Topic page name* fact file on ARKive
*Eco-region name* case study on ARKive

*Replace *species name*, *topic page name* or *eco-region name* with the appropriate page title e.g. Tiger fact file on ARKive or Climate Change fact file on ARKive.

Terms of use: Anyone is welcome to create text links to ARKive.

Logo link

You could also have an ARKive logo link on your site by using the following code snippet to embed the linked logo into your web page.

<a href="http://www.arkive.org/" border="0"><img src="http://www.arkive.org/images/logos_external/arkive_black_trans_150.png" border="0" width="150" height="49" alt="ARKive – Endangered species photos, videos and facts" title="ARKive - A unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species." /></a>

Terms of use: Anyone is welcome to create logo links to ARKive.

Would you like to link to a large number of species pages on ARKive?

XML feeds

For administrators of large database-driven sites we also offer XML feeds that are available for data-harvesting. Please email arkiveapi@wildscreen.org.uk for more information.

Terms of use: We recommend XML feeds are used by large database driven sites only.

Got a question about linking to ARKive content?

Email arkiveapi@wildscreen.org.uk.