New Mexico is enormously rich in biodiversity and fortunate in that a history of that biodiversity is still available to scientists and the public in the form of collections housed in the state's natural history museums. To protect those collections and to make the information stored in them available to the scientific community and the general public, NMBCC has integrated museum data at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, Western New Mexico University, Eastern New Mexico University, and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History into a searchable geospatial format accessible via the Internet.

• June 1, 2009. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History has been a long-time friend and member of the NMBCC, so it is with great pleasure that we have at last added NMMNH data to the NMBCC database. We now have nearly 2,000 records from their mammal collection, about half of which are mappable.
• May 21, 2009. With our new refreshed data, NMBCC passed two milestones. We now serve over 350,000 specimen records, over 100,000 of which are mappable.
• May 10, 2009. Data for most Herbaria collections refreshed. Thousands of new specimen records and tens of thousands of more georeferences. New upload protocol improves content for nomenclature and georeferencing details.
• April 1, 2009. We have added mapping capabilities for registered users. You can now map records that have been georeferenced in either Berkeley Mapper or in our own Advanced IMF Mapper. The IMF Mapper has all kinds of cool options like mapping against numerous background layers and printing out your maps.
• March 15, 2009.NMBCC has partnered with the Southwest Environmental Information Network (SEINet) to provide more and better resources to support study of the biodiversity of the American Southwest. Checkout the new Southwest Biodiversity Consortium site (currently geared toward regional herbaria).