He says that in theory the government should allocate budgets and shoulder its responsibility for recording and conserving wildlife. But making a documentary film on any individual species takes at least three or four years, and government budgeting and tendering procedures make it very difficult to secure funding over such a length of time. Thus he had had no choice but to seek corporate sponsorship.
劉燕明表示，雖然理論上政府有責任編列預算，擔起物種紀錄保育的責任，但由於任何一種野生動物紀錄片，至少都要三、四年之久，政府的預算和招標方式很難允許橫跨這麼長的時間，因此只有把資金來源轉向企業。