A growing number of wildlife surveys done by scholars in recent years have discovered that, despite a general deterioration of the environment, many flora and fauna are not so rare as had been supposed.
至於許多在保育名錄裡的動物，近年來生物學界對台灣物種的調查增加，發現雖然大環境更惡劣，許多物種並不如當初假設那樣稀有。