As the political drama unfolds in Putrajaya, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that a living library of two million rainforest trees is being bulldozed near the town of Tanjung Malim on the Perak-Selangor border.

The trees were part of a lifelong and painstaking reforestation project led by 84-year-old James Kingham, who planted a whole forest in an area of 200 acres with 1,200 species of rare forest trees.

However, after his annual lease on the land was not renewed, the state land was sold to new owners who are bulldozing everything in its path...