Due to Taiwan not being a member of UN, Taiwan's NPOs suffer a lack of international support, being excluded from technological or resource-based support and from international meetings, and some major international organizations, such as the World Bank and World Wildlife Fund, can't be applied to for support. For the Society of Wilderness, which is not government affiliated or subsidized, this makes life difficult.
張宏林指出，由於台灣不是聯合國會員國，連帶台灣的 NPO 組織也缺乏國際奧援，無論技術、資源或國際會議都被排除在外，一些國際大型的贊助基金會，如世界銀行、WWF（世界自然基金會）等的援助都無法申請，對像荒野這樣未接受政府補助的獨立團體來說，生存上較為困難。