Key facts
- Born
- 31 October 1959, Jorhat
- State of birth
- Jorhat, Assam
- Sector
- Environment
- Profession
- Environmentalist, nature scientist
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Jadav "Molai" Payeng is a forest conservationist from Majuli, in the Indian state of Assam. He is popularly known as the Forest Man of India. Over the course of several decades, he has 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 ha). In 2015, he was honoured with Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India. He was born in the indigenous Mising tribe of Assam.
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Timeline
- 1959Born in Jorhat
- 2015Awarded the Padma Shri
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5
- Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Bijit Dutta