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[VIDEO] Tale of Kuala Langat’s peat forest

Lush greenery now fills an area previously reduced to grey ashes and the charred remains of meranti and pauh timber

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 18 Dec 2020 9:21AM

[VIDEO] Tale of Kuala Langat’s peat forest

by Alif Omar

KUALA LUMPUR – Nature is nothing if not the greatest healer – a dictum that has proved itself with a devastating bushfire that scorched a portion of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve (KLNFR) 10 years ago.

Lush greenery now fills an area previously reduced to grey ashes and the charred remains of meranti and pauh timber. It is a scene that attests to the cyclical and intertwining nature of life and death.

But evidence of the torched past has taken a most unlikely form, one that will elude the eyes of those unfamiliar with the ways and nuances of the 8,000-year-old peat swamp forest.

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