If we don't preserve them today, they could disappear forever, and if the improved strains should ever meet up with a certain disease or die out because of a sudden change in the environment, we'd be finished without the backup of the tougher native breeds, "says Dr. Chien Tai, director general of the Taiwan Livestock Research Institute.
今天不保存，便可能永遠失去。萬一有一天，改良種遭惡疾纏身、或因生存環境驟然改變而消失，又沒有生命力頑強的土畜禽為後盾，人類只怕要後悔莫及了」，台灣省畜產試驗所所長戴謙表示。