India, March 2 -- Life in Jabarra is inseparable from the forest that surrounds it. All 102 households of this village in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district, who belong to the Kamar tribal community, have long depended on the woods for their livelihood. In 2019, this bond received a formal recognition when Jabarra was granted community forest resource (CFR) rights under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. The rights now allow residents to manage 5,352 hectares of forest and to collect and sell non-timber forest produce, such as leaves of maloo (Phanera vahlii), flowers and seeds of mahua (Madhuca longifolia) and safed musli herb (Chlorophytum borivilianum). "Since obtaining th...