Chen Tien-hsi, who is working toward a doctorate in zoology at Taiwan Normal University and is an expert on fresh water turtles, says that though the proportion of shells from protected species being consumed in Taiwan is small, for species with small populations, even light culling can do great damage, and so government and industry together must come up with measures that prevent the import of protected species.
研究淡水龜的師大生物系博士班研究生陳添喜表示，雖然目前台灣牽涉保育類龜板的比例可能不多，但既是保育類，已是小族群，小量採集對它們也足以構成大害。因此政府與中藥商，有必要採取行動，避免進口保育類龜板。