One teenager helped turn a sandbar into a 550-hectare forest. 🌳

One teenager helped turn a sandbar into a 550-hectare forest. 🌳 . . . In 1979, 16-year-old Jadav Payeng began planting trees on barren land beside India's Brahmaputra River. Over nearly 40 years, his work helped create Molai Forest, covering about 1,360 acres. The empty sandbar eventually became habitat for elephants, deer and tigers.