A hugely ambitious project to find and name every species on Earth within the next 25 years has been launched by scientists. The internet and the development of DNA sequencing technology make the goal achievable, they say.
An online project seeks to name and categorize every plant, animal and microbe on Earth — all in just 25 years. Founded last year, San Francisco's non-profit ALL Species Foundation plans to make a record of all life-forms, a number it estimates to be between 7 million and 100 million, in a single generation.
Kevin Kelly discusses the work of the All Species Foundation which has the very ambitious goal of recording, naming and taking a genetic sample of every living thing on Earth within 25 years.