@BettyBoop 3 November 2020

Jadav Molai Payeng, a man who planted a forest of 550 hectares with his bare hands

The forest is named "Molai forest", after the man who created it and lived in it for more than 40 years. Jadav Molai Payeng has dedicated his entire life to forest maintenance and development. Accepting a life of isolation, he began living alone as a teenager, spending days intending to help plants grow.

In the past 70 years, the island of Majuli has shrunk by more than half, which is why there are doubts that it will be completely submerged in the next 20 years. The island is under constant threat due to extensive soil erosion, and while the Indian authorities are trying to figure out what to do to prolong its life, this man is doing something concrete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZDSqyE1do&feature=emb_logo The great flood of 1965 completely destroyed the hell on Brahmaputra where the Pajeng family lived. It was the first traumatic experience for little Jadav, and the trauma was repeated when the great flood of 1979 hit Assam again. Then Jadav came across a large number of snakes that died from too much heat after the flood threw them out on a sandbar on which there were no trees, and then he decided that his life mission would be to save Majuli from erosion by planting trees.

He planted each seed with his bare hands. He watered in the morning and in the evening. Despite the pain, slowness and loneliness, he never stopped planting.

Today, this "barren" landscape has about 550 hectares of forest, home to several thousand species of trees and an incredible diversity of wildlife - birds, deer, monkeys, tigers, rhinos and elephants. **Thanks Man.**