THE FOREST MAN : JADAV MOLAI PAYENG

Meet Our Guest Speaker - Environmental Activist Jadav "Molai" Payeng | Guwahati Diaries 2017 | 16th December
Jadav Payeng spent 37 years of his life planting a forest covering 550 hectare. The flood had washed away the soil cover of the forest.
The village elders told him “You need to build a new home fo the animals”.
Jadav started on the banks of the Brahmaputra with a few bamboo saplings.
To improve soil fertility he released termites and ants.
He even planted banana trees to prevent the wild elephants from straying out to the nearby villages. And the world discovered “Forest Man of India”