At stake, aside from man himself, are over 4,400 plants native to Taiwan, one seventh of the plant varieties of all China and one thirty-second of the world total. Considering Taiwan's area, this figure is truly phenomenal.
台灣地跨溫、熱兩帶，又有海拔三千公尺以上的高山，地理條件得天獨厚，計有四千四百多種植物，佔全中國植物種類的七分之一；全世界植物種類的卅二分之一。