Community Forest Rights (CFR) is an initiative by Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) an environmental research institute based in Bengaluru. ATREE’s Centre for Environment and Development works on enabling sustainable, livelihood enhancing, and democratic forest governance. CFR works at a national level as well as in sites in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Telangana.

This app is a part of a freely accessible GIS-based Decision Support system that can be used both by the district administration and by the local community to accurately map and claim CFR areas, resolve boundary disputes, and plan forest resource use. The app can be used to create GPS tracks of CFR claim areas and upload them to the webGIS to eventually integrate them into official records.