DIBRUGARH: Unidentified miscreants set fire on Sunday to the Molai Kathoni 2.0 forest, a newly cultivated green cover created by “Forest Man of India” Jadav Payeng and his 21-year-old daughter, ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, Jadav Payeng was distraught watching snakes die for lack of shade on a barren sandbar in the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India. He moved to the sandbar, began planting seeds there, ...

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 ...

Telangana-based water conservationist M. Karunakar Reddy on Sunday (March 30, 2025) received the first award named after Assam’s Jadav Payeng, a grassroots green activist better known as the ‘Forest ...

After the Brahmaputra River flooded and heavy monsoons devastated the river island of Majuli (“the forests were washed away, leaving only sand”), 14-year-old Jadav Payeng began planting trees to keep ...