One day in 1979, 16-year-old Payeng was walking along the bank of the Brahmaputra River.

1979年的一天，16岁的帕勇在雅鲁藏布江岸边散步。

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Over the past 38 years, he has planted trees on a sandbar of the Brahmaputra River and has turned it into a forest.

38年来，他在雅鲁藏布江的一个沙洲上植树造林，把那里变成了一片森林。

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A fisherman lifts his net from the waters of the Brahmaputra River.

一名渔夫从水中收回渔网，雅鲁藏布江水域，印度。

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Forest guard Nomal Boro said the poachers opened fire and then tried to flee toward the Brahmaputra River.

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The early British planters could not find workers locally so labour contractors collected not just men, but women and children too, from distant parts of India and sent them on boats up the Brahmaputra river which flows through Assam.

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Kaziranga, a 330-square-mile expanse on the southern bank of the swirling Brahmaputra River, which flows from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bay of Bengal, is one of the final sanctuaries of rhinoceros unicornis, the one-horned rhino.

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