Jadav Payeng

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1963 –

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Who is Jadav Payeng?

Jadav "Molai" Payeng is a Mishing tribe environmental activist and forestry worker from Jorhat, India. Over the course of several decades, he planted and tended trees on a sandbar of the river Brahmaputra turning it into a forest reserve. The forest, called Molai forest after him, is located near Kokilamukh of Jorhat, Assam, India and encompasses an area of about 1,360 acres / 550 hectares.

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Born
1963
Assam

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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