There are over 9000 species of birds in the world, belonging to 27 orders and 15 families, with over 450 bird species documented in Taiwan at present. The development of industrialization in recent years poses a serious threat to bird habitats, with the survival of Taiwan’s birds now facing a major crisis.

In recent years, more and more academic archiving institutions have started using digitalization to document and preserve species

In order to preserve and research these shellfish and to promote and apply this information, researchers at the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica built a Taiwan Malacofauna Database , opening their years of records, published academic books and papers on shellfish, and literature and results of specimen collections of shellfish