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New Straits Times

03-09-2004

Generating interest in peat swamp forests
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Earth Matters

THE Peat Swamp Forest Project is an initiative of the Malaysian Government, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF) as well as the Danish International Development Agency (Danida), started in June 2002.

It is implemented by the Forest Research Institute o...

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