Forest Research Institute Malaysia

Ayer Keroh, Ipoh, 52100
Forest Research Institute Malaysia Forest Research Institute Malaysia is one of the popular Educational Research Center located in Ayer Keroh ,Ipoh listed under City in Ipoh , Region in Ipoh , Educational Research Center in Ipoh ,

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The Forest Research Institute Malaysia is a statutory agency of the Government of Malaysia, under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. FRIM promotes sustainable management and optimal use of forest resources in Malaysia by generating knowledge and technology through research, development and application in tropical forestry. FRIM is located in Kepong, near Kuala Lumpur.HistoryIn 1926, the Chief Conservator of the Forest, G.E.S Cubitt, asked Dr. F.W. Foxworthy to establish a separate forest research unit for the Forestry Department. It was Foxworthy who selected the present site, at Kepong. He was also to become the institutes's first Chief Research Officer.The site comprised an area that was practically stripped of its original forest cover except for a few remnant trees at the more inaccessible localities. Lalang-grass scrub on the hillsides made way to vegetable terraces on the lower slopes, while the valley cradled a few ponds, the left-overs of a past tin-mining operation.Within two years in 1928, the first of experimental plantation were in place, carefully nurtured into being using "nurse" trees of other species as shade and food providers . By that time the construction of the main building had begun. Completed the following years, this building was to remain the sole centre for the laboratories, herbarium, and museum, as well as the Chemistry, Zoology and Sivilculture sections of the institute, until new buildings were added after World War II. The herbarium collection, that was also moved to Kepong, numbered 1,500 accessions.

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