KUALA BERANG: The Terengganu Forestry Department will gazette part of the Tembat Forest Reserve, in Jenagor near here, in an effort to preserve the habitat of the Rafflesia, or Pakma flower.
Its director, Roslan Rani, said the department would submit the related papers to be studied by the state government for the purpose.
"This is to ensure the sustainability of the habitat and ecosystem of this special Pakma flower,” he told Bernama. He said the type of flower that grows in the forest is the Rafflesia cantleyi species, which is the largest, most beautiful and rarest one.
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