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Man who 'raised' the young of endangered tree wins President's Award for the Environment

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Straits Times

Publication Date
2017-11-21

SINGAPORE - In little plastic cups, he "raised" the young of an endangered tree, and cared for the seeds like they were his children. This was in 2002 when Dr Shawn Lum, then vice-president of the Nature Society (Singapore), learnt of the illegal felling of the endangered giant - Hopea Sangal - in Changi Village.

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