Moreover, environmental protection work touches on things like community consciousness, the livelihood of farmers and fishermen, and aboriginal culture. Often the main obstacle to environmental protection work is the attitudes of people who live in the mountains and depend on the resources there. Thus environmental protection is not simply the responsibility of a few social elites, but includes economic, social, transportation, and even diplomatic and political aspects.
此外，保育工作還牽涉到社區意識、農漁民生計、原住民文化，保育成敗的關鍵往往決定在直接居住山林、依賴自然資源者的態度上，因此保育不應只是少數菁英的任務，解決問題也必須擴展到經濟、社會、交通，甚至外交、政治部門。