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Short Summary: The Lone Green Warrior

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The Lone Green Warrior

One man transforms an isolated barren sandbar into a sanctuary

Its 3.30 a.m in the morning. Jadav, and his whole family of wife and three children wake-up and gets busy milking, feeding and bathing the 90 odd cows and buffalo 's. By 8.00 a.m, the milk is put in containers to be ferried to the near by town of Johart. After a brief nap and lunch, the children leave for school, while Jadav pulls out his bag of seeds and saplings and canoes to the nearby Mekhai islet. “This is my new plantation site of about 600 hectares,” he says. After a brief pause he muses,” This should keep me busy for another 30 years.”

Jadav Molai Payeng is no ordinary man- he grows forests. Fifty-four year old Jadav belonging to the Mising tribe …show more content…

Jitu Kalita says he has spotted nearly 50 local and 70 varieties of migratory birds, which flock to the several small water bodies in the forest. After, nearly four decades of absence, vultures have made a come back and about 100 of them have been sighted in the area.

Molai forest looks more like a private sanctuary, home to hog deer, spotted deer, rabbits, foxes, apes, wild boars, Indian rhinoceros, elephants, half a dozen tigers including a royal Bengal tiger family and a visiting herd of about 20 wild Asiatic buffaloes.

A herd of hundred plus elephants have made Molai woods as part of their annual migratory route and stay in the forest for 3-4 months in an year. When this big herd came to reside in the forest for the first time, they destroyed homes, crop fields including Jadav 's house in the middle of the forest. In a fit of furry, blaming Jadav 's forest as responsible for attracting the elephants, the villagers trashed Jadav, burnt and chopped off a section of the forest.

As Jadav recalls,”That was one of the happiest day in my life, that sight of hundreds of elephants coming, was what I wanted to see since my childhood.” Later the forest department intervened into the matter and since than, the villagers have accepted Jadav and his forest with wild

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