It is a protected reserve under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.
The village was recently assigned its own protected natural reserve.
Also of note is Seven Mile Beach to the south, a protected reserve.
Over the next six years, this initial protected reserve was expanded.
It is also home to over 500 tigers and is now a protected reserve.
The group transferred to a helicopter and headed to a protected reserve before being introduced to the forest.
The society said a protected reserve would assure a continuing balance of uses in the woods, which are now owned largely by big timber companies.
The mine and its surroundings have since been made a protected reserve for bats.
Roughly 250 square kilometres of protected reserves were tree farms.
Back in 2000, the local government had passed an ordinance declaring Quilish and its watershed a protected natural reserve.