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A survey on natural resources in Korea national parks has to be carried out by every 10 years’ period according to the Article 36 stipulated in the Natural Parks Act. Based on this stipulation, natural resources in national parks have been investigated during past 30 years; the results obtained therefrom have been accumulated in the database of the list of wildlife and exploited to identify current state of wild lives. The length of period of the survey on natural resources has reduced from 10 years to 5 years according to the Natural Parks Act amended in 2017 by which the scope of investigation has expanded from that of an investigation of natural resources to that of the investigation of resources in national parks. The resulted investigation on resources in national parks is scheduled to be carried out from 2019. The present study has discussed issues associated with past investigation on natural resources with the specialists of wild lives and managers of national parks to identify and to establish improvement plans thereof from which, the direction of investigation was set to be oriented toward habitats from species of wild lives and be focused on basins from grids. In particular, efforts will be concentrating on an identification and schematization of habitats of wild lives. For such purposes, the present study has distinguished the investigation on natural resources in national parks into investigations on following fields of land, sea, and the humanities; the types of biodiversity, habitats of wild lives, and disturbance factors were also distinguished and the resulted 34 fields of investigation comprised of 13 fields in land, 9 fields in sea, and 12 fields in the humanities were selected. To conduct the project of investigation smoothly, the respective teams of staffs in charge of ecological investigation, in charge of investigation on hydraulics and water gates, in charge of operation of drones, and in charge of analyses of GIS will be constructed. Besides, an evaluation system on states of national parks will be developed through the selection of the fields of investigation that are enabled to provide us with objective assessment on changes therein by every five years.