Marcus Phipps, who belongs to a wildlife protection group himself, says that even though the ELA is based in Britain, that neither means that only British environmental groups are concerned about the use of rhino horns in Taiwan nor excuses explaining away the dispute as racial discrimination or a conflict in cultural differences.
針對犀牛角事件，同屬國外保育團體成員的斐馬克認為，環境調查基金會總部雖然在英國，卻不代表只有英國環保團體關心台灣地區使用犀牛角的情形，大家不需要將之解釋成種族對立或文化差異的衝突。