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Kepong, 16 kilometers north of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, was denuded as recently as the 1920s. Scrubby vegetation was all that remained after the forest had been stripped to allow tin mining and vegetable cultivation. But in 1926 pioneering forestry scientists in the pay of the British colonial government started a grand experiment to reseed, and it's now the only place in the world where there is a very large tract of artificially seeded rainforest-one which has slowly been regenerating for nearly 90 years. [Source: Scientific American]
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