Jadav "Molai" Payeng planted a forest on a sandbar in the middle of the Brahmaputra
Indian Man Single-Handedly Plants 1,360 Acre Forest
Inhabitat.com – TIMON SINGH – Apr 4, 2012
Jadav “Molai” Payeng started his project 30 years ago when he was still a teenager. Then, in 1979, flood waters washed a large number of snakes ashore on the local sandbar in Jorhat, some 350 km from Guwahati. When the waters receded, Payeng (who was 16 at the time) noticed the reptiles had died due to a lack of forestry. more
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