To promote the regional collaboration of sharing scientific knowledge for ecological database and information, 　Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (Director General Junne-Jih Chen) & Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute (Director Jia-Dong Yang) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with National Institute of Ecology (Dr. Ohseok Kwon), Republic of Korea on Feb. 14, 2019. The bilateral collaboration in the future includes exchanging faculty members and researchers, developing joint research activities, co-organizing symposia, conferences, seminars and meetings etc. This MOU will benefit both sides in long-term ecological research including climate change, biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture and so on.