- Animal of the Week List: A listing of all the featured SANBI Animals of the Week.
- Biodiversity Advisor: Helps people to find biodiversity information from other SANBI websites.
- PlantZAfrica: SANBI website providing information on popular southern African plants and related topics.
- SIBIS: Provides access to all SANBI scientific databases: over 1.6 million occurrence records and taxonomic details for over 22 000 species. This database has not been updated recently.
- Invasive Alien Plant Alert: A list of plants features in the Invasive Alien Plant Alert series together with a list of invasive alien Species.
- iNaturalist: Your gateway to sharing and identifying southern African biodiversity.
- Red List of South Africa plants: Online version of SANBI’s Red List of South African plants
- BGIS (Biodiversity GIS): The main SANBI resource for GIS with interactive mapping, biodiversity data, training and legislation.
- Vegetation Map of South Africa: An interactive map showing vegetation types of South Africa. Use Internet Explorer to access it.
- POSA: Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist provides access to plant names and floristic details for southern African plant species. This database has not been updated for some time so please check names with your local herbarium or on the International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org
- SABIF: This website contains data of species in southern Africa, gathered by SANBI and partner organisations.
- DEAT Environmental Indicators: This is the database that stores the SA indicators for biodiversity reporting purposes
- Land Degradation Report: National Review of Land Degradation in South Africa.
- Collection Permits: How to obtain legal permits to collect South Africa’ natural genetic material
- SANBI Biodiversity Research Tools: Describes tools for GIS and other uses, how they can be used, and how to access them.
- Species Status Database: This is the databases that stores all the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act (NEMBA) listed species.