But a number of farmers, unwilling to keep losing money, decided to cut down their plum trees and to plant more profitable atemoyas instead. This triggered a battle to preserve the fairy pittas 'habitat.
然而，不堪長期虧損下，林道裡的梅園主人紛紛打算砍除梅樹，改種經濟價值高的新種鳳梨釋迦，因而引發了一場八色鳥棲地保護戰。