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Three decades ago His Majesty the King initiated an ongoing project to utilize the natural resources in the plateaus, the countrys source of the head waters of the rivers and water ways of the kingdom. This area is also home to the indigenous hill tribe Thais. The Royal Support Project is a result of His Majestys visionary goal to reduce and eventually eradicate the regions reliance on opium production and the devastating slash and burn agricultural practice. The ultimate goal of this project is to cherish, preserve and protect their ecological treasures. From its conception the Royal Project in this region has enabled the regeneration of the land from damage caused by many years of opium growing to a protected vibrant forest preserve and a burgeoning source of abundant agricultural wealth. The populus has benefited from the improved living conditions which have allowed them to establish permanent habitations without to resort to continuous migration as they did in the past. Among the Support Foundations many successes has been the elimination of endemic narcotics use by the local populous for which the Foundation received the Magsaysay award for International Understandings in the year 2531. The Royal Support Foundation is carrying out researches on a new branch of highland agriculture to develop growing imported cold climate plants in Thailand which will help to improve the economy of the country. The Royal Support Foundation therefore is not only assisting the highland populous but also the whole country and the rest of the world.