Local communities i.e the shiroi villagers have, for many years, protected and nurtured Shiroi lily. However, they have not been able to understand the relationship between lili flower and the physical environment of the surrounding forest. As such local have been indiscriminately cutting the trees for sale as timber and firewood. Moreover, shifting cultivation is practiced at the foothill. These activities combined with setting of forest on fire and unregulated hunting and sale of valuable plants have seriously damaged the ecosystem of the peak and endemic species of plants and animals. The number of migratory birds locally known as Shiri is drastically reduced as the Michelia exersa trees on whose seeds are fed on, are depleted. Some of these rare species of flora and fauna have to be identified so that they can be protected.