High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ARKive is a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world`s threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", which it does by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world`s species into a centralised digital archive. Its current priority is the completion of audio-visual profiles for the c. 17,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.