From 1998 to 2001, funds from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) were used to allot grants to villagers for ecologicalforest management and to compensate them for the loss of the right to exploit the forest.
The presence of both pristine and rehabilitated forests makes Mount Kuwol an important area to study the ecological changes and effects of forest rehabilitation as well as the associated biodiversity.
Ecological studies on the restoration of degraded forest land, the conservation of medicinal plants and their sustainable harvesting are being conducted at Achanakmar-Amarkantak.