One evening I visited the Assam Forest office in Kuklung. It was dark due to electric failure and as I entered, a man met and held my gaze, then stooped to touch my shoes with both his hands, a gesture of honor. I was surprised by this stranger’s action but later I heard that he had worked against the deforestation and he knew who I was and my mission. The next morning we returned to talk to members of the Kuklung community, telling them about their special golden langurs and how we needed their help to protect their forest. Later, as I was getting ready to leave Assam to return to the US, I received a telephone call from Arnab Bose of Nature’s Foster. He was surprised and puzzled by what had happened after our visit but he related to me that the Kuklung villagers had stopped the illegal loggers in the Manas Reserve Forest and had confiscated 22 bullock carts and logs under their own cognizance. I was also unsure of the action but I thought for a moment and replied that I think that was a positive action on their part. They had taken our words as permission to stop those who were stealing their forest. Soon after that, those men formed the Raigajli Ecotourism & Social Welfare Society. The next year when I visited I saw the camp they had just built where their forest protectors were living. They had begun to patrol and protect the Manas Reserve Forest, north of Kuklung, that had never had any protection before. I was happy to hear that because like other Reserve Forests of the Manas Biosphere you could see hundreds of bicycles loaded with hundreds of pounds of fire wood streaming out of the forest before dusk. When I returned in the second year to visit the Raigajli camp they told me a frightening story of how over a hundred illegal loggers had attacked them and destroyed their camp but they had rebuilt it already. Later in that visit they had another tale of violence. While their men were patrolling the forest, an illegal logger warned his men and they felled a tree to block the forest protector’s patrol truck. As the protectors were moving the obstructing log, they were set upon by a gang of encroachers and beaten badly so they had to be taken to the hospital to recuperate from their head wounds. Such conflicts and deforestation eventually disappeared.