Relying on foreigners can't be helped: Conservation is a new concept even abroad, and most people don't understand its importance. You can say, how could people be bothered with these matters before when they were so poor?
我們可以說，生態保育在國際上也是新的思潮、一般大眾尚未認知它的重要性；也可以說以前很窮，那裡想得到這些事。