Jadav Payeng
Jadav " Molai " Payeng (an haife shi 31 Oktoba 1959) ɗan gwagwarmayar muhalli ne  kuma ma'aikacin gandun daji daga Majuli,  wanda aka fi sani da mutumin daji na Indiya .   A cikin shekaru da dama da suka wuce, ya shuka da kuma kula da bishiyoyi a kan wani yashi na kogin Brahmaputra yana mai da shi wurin ajiyar gandun daji. Dajin, wanda ake kira dajin Molai a bayansa,  yana kusa da Kokilamukh na Jorhat, Assam, Indiya kuma ya ƙunshi fili kimanin eka 1,360 / hekta 550.   A cikin 2015, an karrama shi da Padma Shri, lambar yabo ta huɗu mafi girma ta farar hula a Indiya.  An haife shi a cikin ƙabilar Bace  na Assam.

Sana'a 
A shekarar 1979, Payeng, ɗan shekara 19, yaci karo da dimbin macizai da suka mutu saboda tsananin zafi bayan da ambaliyar ruwa ta wanke su akan sandar yashi mara bishiya. Wato lokacin da ya dasa tsire-tsire na bamboo kusan 20 akan sandar yashi.  Ba wai kawai ya kula da tsire-tsire ba, amma ya ci gaba da dasa bishiyoyi da kansa, a kokarinsa na mayar da yankin daji.

Dajin, wanda aka fi sani da dajin Molai, yanzu yana da damisa na Bengal, rhinoceros na Indiya, da barewa da zomaye sama da 100. Dajin Molai kuma yana da gida ga birai da nau'in tsuntsaye iri-iri, gami da yawan ungulu.  Akwai bishiyoyi dubu da yawa, ciki har da valcol, arjun (Terminalia arjuna), ejar (Lagerstroemia speciosa), goldmohur (Delonix regia), koroi (Albizia procera ), moj (Archidendron bigeminum) da himolu (Bombax ceiba). Bamboo ya mamaye fili fiye da hekta 300.

Garken giwaye kusan 100 na ziyartar daji akai akai a kowace shekara kuma galibi suna zama na kusan watanni shida. Sun haifi makiya guda 10 acikin dajin a shekarun baya-bayan nan.

Yunkurin nasa ya bayyana ne ga hukuma a shekarar 2008, lokacin da jami’an sashen gandun daji suka je yankin domin neman giwaye 115 da suka koma cikin dajin bayan da suka lalata kadarori a ƙauyen Aruna Chapori mai kimanin kimanin 1.5. km daga dajin. Jami’an sunyi mamakin ganin irin wannan katafaren dajin mai yawa kuma tun daga lokacin sashen ke ziyartar wurin.

A shekara ta 2013, mafarauta sunyi ƙoƙarin kashe karkandan da ke dajin amma suka kasa kokarinsu saboda Molai wanda ya sanar da jami’an sashen. Nan take jami’ai suka kama wasu kasidu da mafarauta ke amfani da su wajen damke dabbobin.

Molai a shirye yake ya tafiyar da dajin ta hanya mai kyau da kuma zuwa wasu yankunan jihar domin fara irin wannan harkar. Yanzu manufarsa ita ce yada dajinsa zuwa wani shingen yashi acikin Brahmaputra.

Rayuwa ta sirri 
Jadav Payeng na kabilar Bace ne a Assam, Indiya. Shi da matarsa da ’ya’ya 3 (’ya’ya 1 da ’ya’ya 2) sun kasance a gidan da ya gina acikin dajinsa. A cikin 2012, Jadav ya gina gida a No. 1 Mishing Gaon kusa da Kokilmukh Ghat kuma ya koma wannan gidan tare da danginsa. Tun daga nan suke zaune a gidan nan. Jadav, duk da haka, yana tafiya kullun zuwa dajinsa don kula da tsire-tsire da bishiyoyi. Yana da shanu da bawo a gonarsa, yana sayar da nonon don rayuwarsa, wadda ita ce kawai hanyar samun Kuɗin shiga. A wata hira da akayi da shi a shekara ta 2012, ya bayyana cewa yayi asarar shanun sa da ɓauna kusan 100 ga damisa a cikin dajin, amma ya zargi mutanen da ke aikata manyan laifuka da lalata dazuzzuka a matsayin musabbabin halin da namun daji ke ciki

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Girmamawa 

Jadav Payeng ya sami karramawa a wani taron jama'a da Makarantar Kimiyyar Muhalli ta shirya, Jami'ar Jawaharlal Nehru akan 22 Afrilu 2012 don nasararsa. Ya raba kwarewarsa na ƙirƙirar gandun daji a cikin taron tattaunawa, inda wanda ya lashe kyautar Magsaysay Award Rajendra Singh da mataimakin shugaban jam'iyyar JNU Sudhir Kumar Sopory suka halarta. Sopory mai suna Jadav Payeng a matsayin "Mutumin daji na Indiya". Acikin watan Oktoba na 2013, an karrama shi a Cibiyar Kula da gandun daji ta Indiya yayin taron Coalescence na shekara-shekara. Acikin 2015, an karrama shi da Padma Shri, lambar yabo ta huɗu mafi girma ta farar hula a Indiya. Ya samu digirin girmamawa na digirin digirgir daga Jami’ar Aikin Gona ta Assam da Jami’ar Kaziranga bisa gudunmawar da ya bayar.

A cikin shahararrun al'adu 
Payeng ya kasance batun batutuwa da dama acikin 'yan shekarun nan. Halinsa shine tushen fim ɗin ƙagaggen da wani darakta na Tamil Prabhu solaman ya yi yayin da ya shirya Rana Daggubati wanda aka saki a Tamil, Telugu, Hindi as Kaadan, Aranya and Haathi Mere Saathi (2018 film). Fim ɗin shirin fim na gida, wanda Jitu Kalita ya shirya a cikin 2012, Dajin Molai, an nuna shi a Jami'ar Jawaharlal Nehru. Jitu Kalita, wanda ke zaune kusa da gidan Payeng, shi ma an nuna shi kuma an ba shi karramawa don kyakkyawan rahoto ta hanyar tsara rayuwar Payeng ta cikin shirinsa na gaskiya.

Labarin fim na 2013 Rayuwar daji, wanda mai shirya fina-finai na Indiya Aarti Shrivastava ya jagoranta, yana murna da rayuwa da aikin Jadav Payeng a cikin dajin Molai. Waɗannan su ne kuma abin da William Douglas McMaster ya mayar da hankali kan shirin fim ɗin 2013 na Forest Man. Tare da dalar Amurka 8,327 da akayi alƙawarin a kan yaƙin neman zaɓe na Kickstarter, fim ɗin ya ƙare kuma an ɗauke shi zuwa wasu bukukuwan fina-finai.  An ba shi kyautar Kyauta mafi kyawun Takardun Takardun Takaddun shaida a Fim ɗin Fina-Finan Fina-Finan da ke fitowa acikin Rukunin Amurka a 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

Payeng shine batun littafin yara The Boy Who Grow A Forest: Gaskiyar Labari na Jadav Payeng, wanda Sophia Gholz ya rubuta kuma Kayla Harren ya kwatanta. Buga ta Sleeping Bear Press, littafin ya lashe lambar yabo ta Crystal Kite, lambar yabo ta Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA) daga Kwalejin Northland, da lambar yabo ta Jihar Florida. An fassara shi zuwa Jamusanci da Faransanci, kuma an daidaita shi don mataki.

Payeng kuma shine batun littafin yara na Jadav and the Tree-Place, wanda Vinayak Varma ya rubuta kuma ya kwatanta. Budaddiyar hanyar dandali na wallafe- wallafen yara StoryWeaver, ne suka buga littafin kuma an sami tallafin samar da shi ta hanyar tallafi daga Ƙaddamarwa ta Oracle Giving Initiative.

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