Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)

This guide to the Forest Research Institute Malaysia in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur traces a 1926 challenge handed to botanist Frederick Foxworthy: rebuild a rainforest on land stripped bare by decades of tin mining. You'll hear how he chose nitrogen-fixing nurse trees first, then the towering dipterocarps, planting species by species across forty-two hectares in just two years. Look up as you walk beneath the canopy he started from nothing.