The Research Center for Biodiversity and Eco-Engineering under the State Academy of Sciences plays the pivotal role in the undertaking.

In recent years the center has registered a series of successes in the systematic survey of and research into the animals and plants of the country in the extermination crisis and main migratory birds and the work for protecting and restoring their habitats in different parts of the country.

Scientists have pushed ahead all along with the survey of the main migratory and stationary birds of the country including crane, snipe, swan and duck genera and stork, spoonbill and others which are under protection in the world and fauna and flora which live in the nature reserves, thus laying a foundation to prevent the reduction of biodiversity and put the natural protection work on a scientific basis.

They have published many reference books and made videotapes with data and photographs collected during the spot survey to widely introduce the correctness of the DPRK's policy of nature preservation and the significance of biodiversity protection.

Now they are estimating biodiversity in wetlands and surveying and studying the sustainable use and protection measures in a systematic way.

The tissue culture research room of the center has also achieved successes in the research to widely propagate good species of trees and high-yielding fruit trees by the method of tissue culture to be sent to various units of the country.