In Taiwan, there is no integration among the academic disciplines of zoology, botany, marine life, climate, soil conservation, and the like. Environmental protection agencies are weak, and research funding is limited. Thus there is little concrete knowledge about the numbers of various species and whether these numbers are rising or falling, not to mention any understanding of what concrete steps can be taken to solve specific problems.
在台灣，過去著重個別物種的研究與保育，動、植物學界與研究水文、氣候、土壤等環境學者缺乏整合，保育又一直是弱勢單位，經費有限，因此學界對多數物種的數量與族群增減仍無法掌握，也談不上幫助解決實際的問題。