Nepal Kusunda Bikas Samaj works with the Kusunda, one of Nepal’s smallest and most endangered Indigenous groups. Formerly semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers of the western hill forests who call themselves Ban Raja, kings of the forest, the Kusunda numbered 253 people in the 2021 census, and their language, a genuine isolate unrelated to any other, has almost no fluent speakers left. Kusunda families today live scattered across Dang, Pyuthan, Rolpa, Arghakhanchi, Kapilvastu and Gorkha, having been settled after mid-twentieth-century forest nationalisation ended their nomadic life. The organisation’s third-batch DGM Nepal sub-project establishes a duna tapari leaf plate enterprise, chosen because it needs no land, uses leaves gathered from forest trees without felling, and serves a growing market. Grant funds are expected to cover pressing machines, a work shed, collection arrangements and marketing, supporting a community whose historic forest dependence is exactly what DGM Nepal targets.