Taiwan began environmental protection 20 years ago, but even now there is not a single department or institute of ecology at any of the 135 universities and colleges in the country, only separate departments of zoology and botany.
台灣在二十年前開始進行生態保育工作，至今一百三十五所大專院校，仍沒有生態系所，都是個別的動物、植物學門。