Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
Man-made tropical rainforest grown from mining wasteland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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About this audio guide
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.
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