There are a number of new datasets making use of Google Earth/maps on the new King's College Goedata Portal:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geography/research/emm/geodata/
Visualising land cover changes in this way could be extremely useful for rapid conservation assessments. In particular check out RALUCIAPA, Conservation-Eye and Terrascope.
Be warned - they were running very slow last time I checked.
If you have a species in Alaska, Brazilian Amazon, Cameroon, Canada, Central Africa, Congo, Indonesia, Russia or Venezuela, then this site might be useful:
http://www.globalforestwatch.org/english/interactive.maps/index.htm
The interactive maps are quite detailed with GIS layers relating to forests. Some of the data can be downloaded as well.
GBIF have recently added a pretty neat tool to their data portal. You now have the opportunity to create a niche model based on the occurrence data from GBIF. Niche models attempt to define areas of suitable habitat for a species.
Simply search for a species and in the Actions window click the option for 'create niche model'.
A match made in heaven?
GBIF occurrence data and Google Earth: http://ge.gbif.net/
Aside from searching gbif and displaying occurrence records in google earth (something already avaialble via the main gbif portal) there are a couple of extra tools.
You can link directly to the Alexandria gazetteer via a nice query interface and it will create a placemark for your search results:.
Many of you seem to have found this site already, but just in case you haven't:
Haven't checked it out properly yet, but this site might be useful for assessments.
this is a test!
