FES works to ecologically restore and conserve land and water resources in India's environmentally fragile, degraded, and marginalized regions. FES presently works with 36,400+ village institutions in 100 districts across 12 states, and assists the village communities in protecting 11.38 million acres of common lands including revenue wastelands, degraded forest lands and Panchayat grazing lands, positively impacting 22 million rural people across India. FES was established in 2001 in Anand Gujarat, India.