Mitigating the scarcity of Dipterocarp seedlings
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Mitigating the scarcity of Dipterocarp seedlings

The replacement of native populations of trees with cultivated kinds in tissue culture lab is vitally necessary to fulfil the growing demand for forest products while more forest area is required for non-timber purposes. At the moment, short-rotation intense hardwood cultivation looks to be a good fit for this requirement. However, restricted extension of arable land, fast human population increase, improved economic position, environmental degradation, deforestation, global warming, and water shortages will continue to put strain on remaining forest areas.

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Get your hands dirty
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Get your hands dirty

Planters welcome volunteers who would like to experience working with the plants, restoration work and planting trees at Taman Botani Negara.

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Seeds & seedlings hunting
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Seeds & seedlings hunting

Our nursery aims to gather 200,000 seedlings as well as the centre for seeds collection to support our huge scale reforestation. To support the in-house collection, we engange the indigenous people from various areas to supply us the wild seedlings and from their area before transplanting to the targeted sites.

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Keeping it together with MITI
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Keeping it together with MITI

MITI is gearing up for environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework for the manufacturing sector, in line with the country's target of zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Another quadrate is under care
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Another quadrate is under care

Our Forest Management system combines techs to monitor trees health, fertilisation, trees rehab, wild life surveillance. Planters Geotag each preserved and newly replanted trees and a careful undergrowth management is undertaken to ensure that the dipterocarps have enough nutrient to thrive.

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