In 1979 a 16-Year-Old Indian Started Planting Trees in a Sandy Area: 47 Years Later He Has a Huge 550-Hectare Forest.

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In 1979, Jadav Payeng was only 16 years old when he decided to plant trees on a sand bank on the island of Majuli, in northeastern India. That land was practically a desert. Almost five decades later, the place has become the well-known Molai forest, a huge vegetable mass that occupies around ... Continue reading "In 1979 a 16-year-old Indian boy planted trees in a sandy area: 47 years later he has a huge 550-hectare forest"