81.   The study also noted that some animals had fled the conservation area due to the damaged habitat and food shortages.

82.   The three resolutions stated that villagers who can prove they have settled in the forests before the year they were declared conservation areas will be allowed to stay.

83.   The villagers have asked the Counter Corruption Commission to investigate Royal Forestry Department Director General Plodprasop Suraswasdi for approving the filming in a conservation area.

84.   But environmental groups fear that fragile conservation areas, including national parks, will be handed over to the tribes.

85.   There are also plans for the establishment of a trans-border conservation area in Chimanimani, in Manica.

86.   Zuhud said that the forest where the flower was discovered should become a conservation area, as the Rafflesia cannot grow outside of its natural habitat.