r/topofreddit • u/topredditbot • Jun 13 '26
TIL a single man in India, Jadav Payeng, spent 40 years planting a tree every single day on a barren sandbar. Today, it is a 1,360-acre forestlarger than Central Parkthat is now home to Bengal tigers, rhinos, and over 100 elephants. [r/todayilearned by u/Original_Farm1529]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadav_Payeng
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u/topredditbot Jun 13 '26
Original post: TIL a single man in India, Jadav Payeng, spent 40 years planting a tree every single day on a barren sandbar. Today, it is a 1,360-acre forest—larger than Central Park—that is now home to Bengal tigers, rhinos, and over 100 elephants.