Although projects talk about involving communities, there are many levels of community involvement. The highest level encourages communities to take power over their own efforts. In India, communities know how to form their own groups from the Panchayat self-governing system. After many community meetings with the focus on the Manas Biosphere, community groups formed on their own to join the project. When members of the village of Koila Moila decided to join the Golden Langur Conservation Project, there was competition of whether they should join Nature’s Foster an NGO from Bongaigaon or Green Forest Conservation, a CBO from the western area of the Biosphere. Instead, they decided to form their own CBO and became the first CBO to join the project. Once Green Forest Conservation began its partnership with the Bodoland Territorial Council to patrol and protect its western Reserve Forests, other groups began to form within their own regions to participate in protection and to consider the possibility of tourism and other livelihoods. We then organized these CBOs into a federation, the United Forest Conservation Network that met monthly.