Last month, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) has established a mirror site (http://www.gbif.net), which contains global biodiversity information all over the world, and has launched its service. In order to reduce the burden of heavy network traffic in the Internet, the mirror site manages and keeps the copies of numerous original information and data files. Cho Young-Hwa, president of KISTI, said, "Until now, due to the fact that the system is often down or unstable, information availability has been lowered and also the time gap by region has raised many difficulties. But thanks to the opening of the mirror site, Korea is to become an international hub of global biodiversity information distribution." By using this new service, KISTI has a high expectation that the global researches on biodiversity, ecological preservation, and policy-making on biotechnology are to be facilitated and activated. Meanwhile, GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) has been organized with the purpose of freely using biological information on the Internet all over the world, now having a membership of 80 countries. It plans to share information of 1 billion data with more than 120,000 research institutes in the world.