Rafflesia find boon for Tenom
Published on: Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Tenom: The tourism industry in the district received a boost with the discovery of four clumps of Rafflesia in the foothills of Sungai Kg Ulu Naluyan, about two kilometres from the Tenom-Keningau main road.The finding was also confirmed by Agricultural Officer Osman Marzuki and his assistant Jain Linton who went to visit the site on Monday."We ask for cooperation from all parties to help protect this precious heritage, especially because these only flowers grow in cool and unpolluted surrounding. We do not mean to stop land development around this area but we hope that its cool surrounding remains intact," he said.
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