page_title: Molai forest
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Molai forest / History
caption_attribution_description: English: This is my own work and allow people for using it: www.JadavPayeng.org - Official page administrator. In this picture you see Jadav is sitting in midst of Bramhaputra River sand bed on a huge trunk floated in waters due to rapid soil erosion of river islands.
context_page_description: Molai forest is a forest on Majuli Island in the Brahmaputra River near Kokilamukh, Jorhat district, Assam, India.
context_section_description: Molai forest is named after Jadav Payeng, Indian environmental activist and forestry worker. After an initial 200 hectare planting by the social forestry division of Golaghat district was abandoned in 1983,  the forest was single-handedly attended by Payeng for 30 years and now encompasses an area of about 1,360 acres / 550 hectares. Payeng planted and tended trees on a sandbar of Majuli island in the Brahmaputra River, eventually becoming a forest reserve.
  Molai forest now houses Bengal tigers, Indian rhinoceros, over 100 deer and rabbits besides monkeys and several varieties of birds, including a large number of vultures. There are several thousand trees, including valcol, arjun (Terminalia arjuna), Pride of India (Lagerstroemia speciosa), royal poinciana (Delonix regia), silk trees (Albizia procera), moj (Archidendron bigeminum) and cotton trees (Bombax ceiba). Bamboo covers an area of over 300 hectares.
  A herd of around 100 elephants regularly visits the forest every year and generally stays for around six months. They have given birth to 10 calves in the forest.Its apprecate the work of Mr Molia .
caption: Jadav Molai Payeng, the man who planted the Molai Forest
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