The Forest Man of India
The Jadav Payeng, a Mishing tribal teenage boy just completed his Class X exams, returned to his hometown at Aruna sapori, a river island on the Brahmaputra.
On reaching, he noticed the deaths of a large number of snakes curved, looped and twisted lifelessly due to a lack of a tree cover.
The boy’s heart broke.
Distressed and seeking counsel, the boy went to the nearby Deori community village. The snakes had been washed up to the sandbar by floods and had died without tree cover.
The villagers exhorted him to grow trees to save the snakes. For where there are trees, there are birds, and where there are birds, there will be birds’ eggs and fledglings - food for snakes and their ilk. Along with their native wisdom, the villagers offered the boy 50 seeds and 25 bamboo plants.
Almost after 3 decades,
Today, that same land hosts 1,360 acres of Jungle called Molai Forest, named after Jadav “Molai” Payeng, the man who made this possible single handedly!
Real Indian hero....very inspired by his work... pls do upload more posts like this
shortly will upload another post like this!!