Nature Story for Kids: The Boy Who Grew A Forest | Vooks Narrated Storybooks

The boy who grew a forest!

The true story of jadhav pying…

the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago the second best time to plant a tree is now proverb. In india on a large river island among farms and families hard at work the lived a boy who loved trees, trees meant shade food and shelter for many but each rainy season flood waters swallowed more and more of the beautiful tree-covered land. The boy's precious island was shrinking eroding away with the rushing river leaving empty sandbars behind. The boy witnessed animals stranded on those sandbars their homes destroyed his feared that if animals withered without trees people would too. The boy shared his fears with the village the elders explained that the only way to help animals was to create new homes for them. They gifted the boy with 20 bamboo saplings alone he can down the muddy river he wished he could cover all the land with trees [Music] but a large sandbar nearby was a place to start the land was too barren for animals the shores too sandy for leafy trees would bamboo grow the boy hoped. Determined he began to plant one shaft two then three. Every day he watered the saplings by hand sweat trickling down his face and chest he built a watering system to help and lugged heavy buckets from the river his arms grew tired his back saw still each day he tended to the plants and over time the bamboo patch grew into a healthy thicket the boy was proud of his work but he worried it wouldn't be enough to stop the swelling river or to provide shelter for animals if he wanted more plants to grow he would have to create a richer soil. The boy carried cow dung earthworms termites and angry red ants that bit him on the journey to the new home, he brought seeds from neighboring villages over trails through brush down the river each day he planted, as years passed and the boy grew so did a forest 10 acres 20 acres then 40, wildlife returned for the first time in many years, buffalo one-horned rhinos and snakes gibbons migratory birds and elephants [Music] the man's forest teamed with life and diversity, not everyone was happy [Music] fear swept over the villages when tigers arrived so the man planted more grasses to attract small animals that would keep the tigers happy in the forest elephants wandered into neighboring farms to feast on the crops so the man planted more fruiting trees to help feed the hungry elephants, some wanted to harvest the forest to build homes but the man was there to plant anew, others tried to hunt the animals for their horns and fur but the man was there to protect fuel thought the forest would last but the man believed in its strength now in india on a large river island among wildlife and trees as tall as buildings there lives a man who has planted a forest, the forest is called molai after a man named jadav malai, who never stopped planting and pruning and protecting, only by growing plants the earth will survive jada firing.

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