Professor Lee Pei-Fen, director of National Taiwan University's Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Allen Chen, a research fellow at Academia Sinica, call attention to the fact that the humpback dolphins are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
周蓮香表示，台灣白海豚族群量目前處於一個翻轉關鍵點，也就是說，保育做的好，數量可能會往上增加，若什麼都不做則可能繼續往下掉，而設立保護區即可避開絕大多數的危險因子，進而保全整個棲地的生態多樣性。