Man plants forest, becomes film star

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By Morgan Erickson-DavisNov 14, 2014, 4:18 pm83 pts
Jadav “Molai” Payeng is a 51-year-old man who lives in India’s north-eastern state of Assam in the village of Aruna Chapori. A member of Assam’s indigenous Mising trib, Payeng is better known as the “Forest Man" for spending the last 35 years planting a forest bigger than New York City's Central Park.

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