One million down - now there's only 750,000 to go

From: The Scotsman | Date: April 9, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

A GLOBAL project to catalogue every species on the planet has reached a milestone with the announcement that it has passed the one- millionth entry.

Six years into the Species 2000 programme, researchers say they now have 1,009,000 living organisms contained within their databases.

They hope to complete the basic listing by 2011, reaching an expected total of 1.75 million species, although experts within the programme believe that the actual number of different living organisms is between eight and 12 million.

Professor Thomas Orrell, a biologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

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