Singh inspires with this biography of Jadav Payeng (b. 1959), who since 1979 has planted and sustained a forest on a river-adjacent sandbar in northeast India. As a youth, Payeng witnesses the death ...

Jadav ‘Molai’ Payeng (55), a native of the Mishing tribe of Jorhat district in Assam, is not an ordinary man. After the destruction caused by the 1979 floods near his birthplace in Assam, Jadav single ...

Jadav "Molai" Payeng, the ‘Forest Man of India’, has achieved something many would find unimaginable. The Padma Shri awardee is known for single-handedly planting nearly 1,400 acres of forest on a ...

On a journey to the little known Northeast region of India, you may encounter a dizzying array of traditional tribes, rugged beauty and wildlife, including the rare white rhinos. It's here we discover ...

In 1979, a teenager became so concerned with soil erosion that he planted a few trees. Over the next four decades, Jadav Payeng continued to plant and now he has single-handedly created a forest ...

I take a 20-minute boat ride from the Baghmora camp site in Jorhat, Assam, followed by a 45-minute trek to meet ‘The Forest Man of India,’ Jadav Payeng. With me on the boat is Munmuni Payeng, Jadav’s ...

Coimbatore: Conserving waterbodies is the key factor to ensure green cover and biodiversity in urban spaces, said environmentalist Jadav Payeng. He was in the city on Thursday to inaugurate the ...

Jadav Payeng, the “Forest Man of India”, was conferred with the Sat Paul Mittal National Award by Punjab governor Banwarilal Purohit at Nehru Sidhant Kender in Ludhiana on Wednesday Jadav Payeng, the ...

Padma Shri Jadav Payeng, popularly as the “Forest Man of India”, has appealed to the masses to observe a seven-day lockdown as an annual festival. In his message on Earth Day on Wednesday, Payeng told ...