Pretty cool short documenty on a guy that planted a 700 acre forrest by himself

[crockett]

This guy has been planting trees on a island in India since 1979. The island is baron and slowly eroding away because of the river floods, so he started planting trees in 1979. He has now created a forest that is bigger than Central Park over 700 aces and growing.

[MiamiBoyz]

Originally Posted by crockett

This guy has been planting trees on a island in India since 1979. The island is baron and slowly eroding away because of the river floods, so he started planting trees in 1979. He has now created a forest that is bigger than Central Park over 700 aces and growing.

Inspirational stuff!

I have always said that ONE man CAN make a difference...just look at what Hitler did.

[Sly]

Interesting video.

Many call these videos inspirational, I don't. They make someone feel nice inside but very rarely afterwards will people actually take action. Without action, what was inspired?

I would have loved to learn more about why he started, how he continued during times of despair, and what exactly other "single" people can do to get things rolling.

Very cool guy. Video could have been much more powerful.

[crockett]

Originally Posted by Sly

Interesting video.

Many call these videos inspirational, I don't. They make someone feel nice inside but very rarely afterwards will people actually take action. Without action, what was inspired?

I would have loved to learn more about why he started, how he continued during times of despair, and what exactly other "single" people can do to get things rolling.

Very cool guy. Video could have been much more powerful.

Well to be fair, most people are un-inspired losers just wasting space on Earth.. I mean really, how many people can actually say the world will remember them for something good when they are gone much less their local community.. Birthing out a kid doesn't count.. Any crack whore can do that..

This guy is doing a great thing with his life IMO, but obviously it wouldn't be a great thing if everyone was capable or actually did it. It would then be a normal thing..

You don't have to be inspired to do great things such as what he did, you can still do little things.

[Bladewire]

Awesome video Crockett thanks for that

More info on the "forest man

Jadav Payeng belongs to a tribe called "Mishing" in Assam, India. He lives in a small hut in the forest. Binita, his wife, and his 3 children (two sons and a daughter) accompany him.[6] He has cattle and buffalo on his farm and sells the milk for his livelihood, which is his only source of income.[6] In a recent interview he revealed that he lost around 100 of his cows and buffaloes to the tigers in the forest, but blames the people who carry out large scale encroachment and destruction of forests as the root cause of the plight of wild animals.

In 1979, Payeng, then 16, encountered a large number of snakes that had died due to excessive heat after floods washed them onto the tree-less sandbar. That is when he planted around 20 bamboo seedlings on the sandbar.[7][9] He started working on the forest in 1979 when the social forestry division of Golaghat district launched a scheme of tree plantation on 200 hectares at Aruna Chapori situated at a distance of 5 km from Kokilamukh in Jorhat district. Molai was one of the labourers who worked in that project which was completed after five years. He chose to stay back after the completion of the project even after other workers left. He not only looked after the plants, but continued to plant more trees on his own, in an effort to transform the area into a forest.

The forest, which came to be known as Molai forest, now houses Bengal tigers, Indian rhinoceros, and over 100 deer and rabbits. Molai forest is also home to apes and several varieties of birds, including a large number of vultures.[6] There are several thousand trees, including valcol, arjun (Terminalia arjuna), ejar (Lagerstroemia speciosa), goldmohur (Delonix regia), koroi (Albizia procera), moj (Archidendron bigeminum) and himolu (Bombax ceiba). Bamboo covers an area of over 300 hectares.[10]

A herd of around 100 elephants regularly visits the forest every year and generally stay for around six months. They have given birth to 10 calves in the forest in recent years.[10]

His efforts became known to the authorities in 2008, when forest department officials went to the area in search of a herd of 115 elephants that had retreated into the forest after damaging property in the village of Aruna Chapori, which is about 1.5 km from the forest. The officials were surprised to see such a large and dense forest and since then the department has regularly visited the site.[10]

A few years back[when?], poachers tried to kill the rhinos staying in the forest but failed in their attempt due to Molai who alerted department officials. Officials promptly seized various articles used by the poachers to trap the animals.[10]

Molai is ready to manage the forest in a better way and to go to other places of the state to start a similar venture. Now his aim is to spread his forest to another sand bar inside of Brahmaputra.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by Sly

Many call these videos inspirational, I don't. They make someone feel nice inside but very rarely afterwards will people actually take action. Without action, what was inspired?

I would have loved to learn more about why he started, how he continued during times of despair, and what exactly other "single" people can do to get things rolling.

Very cool guy. Video could have been much more powerful.

So to spoil others being inspired, you write about how you're not inspired. Then you lie and list a few things you would have liked to have known, instead of taking 10 seconds to Google and do a copy/paste here and add to the group knowledge.

Why? Why be a cloud on someone's sunny day? Don't answer. Your misery loves company.