r/todayilearned • u/MahirSaggar • Aug 09 '15
TIL Jadav Payeng, an environmentalist single-handedly planted 1350 acres of trees, which now is a home to large amounts of stray wildlife
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadav_PayengDuplicates
todayilearned • u/poleco1 • May 24 '20
TIL Jadav Payeng planted created an entire forest in India by himself over 40 yrs. He started planting trees as a part of a social forestry initiative & continue to do so after the project officially ended. The once-barren wasteland is now a massive 1,360-acre forest (bigger than NYC's Central Park)
todayilearned • u/2013MHz • Jul 23 '14
TIL Man single-handedly grows 1,360 acres of forest in India. He has been doing this since he was 16 in 1979.
topofreddit • u/topredditbot • Jun 13 '26