Before the conservation law, there were already people in Taiwan spending a lot of energy raising and breeding animals--such as Formiosan Gem-faced Civets and Formosan Ring-necked Pheasants--whose numbers were declining in the wild.
在保育法出現之前，台灣就已有人花許多功夫飼養、繁殖白鼻心與環頸雉等在野外只減不增的保育類野生動物。