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Jadav Payeng is a forestry worker from Jorhat, India. Over the past 38 years, he has planted trees on a sandbar (沙洲) of the Brahmaputra River and has1 it into a forest. One day in 1979, 16-year-old Payeng was walking
2 the bank of the Brahmaputra River. He saw many snakes on the sandbars. These snakes died in a few days' time
3the heat and the absence (缺失) of trees. Payeng felt very4when he saw this. He decided to plant some trees. Single-handedly, he started planting bamboo trees, as only bamboo trees could survive (存活) in the sandbars.
To water the trees was a difficult5for one man. With his hard work and great effort, day by day the6 bamboo trees grew into a forest. His tree planting has changed the soil (土壤). Now the sandbar is a thick forest and7 to thousands of plants and animals. A large group of around 100 elephants visit the forest every year and8 there for a few months.
Payeng is now in9ifties. He has planted close to 1,400 acres (英亩) of forests and is 10 as the Forest Man of India. In 2015, he was honored with Padma Shri, one of the top awards (奖) in India.
