Reserves like Kamlang are protected largely by a small number of forest guards walking very large distances through steep, wet and remote country, and the practical constraint on patrolling is rarely policy - it is boots, tents, torches, raincoats, GPS units and communication equipment. A gear handover sounds minor next to a budget announcement, but in a reserve close to an international border and exposed to hunting pressure it is the difference between patrol routes that are covered and patrol routes that are not. The pattern here is worth noting for an answer on conservation financing: a civil-society organisation and a private trust are supplying the equipment in partnership with the state forest department, which is how a good deal of frontline conservation capacity in the North-East is actually funded. Kamlang also matters because it is a landscape reserve rather than a single-species one - the same forest holds tiger, clouded leopard and dhole, which is rare, and it connects to the larger Namdapha block to the south.