As Liao Sheng-fu points out, governments concerned for the environment ask farmers not to kill birds that encroach upon their fields, and pay them compensation calculated on the basis of objective data.
補償農民、承租耕地廖聖福表示，對於日漸稀少的鳥類侵犯農地，有些先進國家政府會要求農民不要捕殺，再透過客觀的調查數據，由政府加以補償。