Forests are perceived as crucial to managing contemporary environmental degradation and climate change-related issues, yet multiple narrative perspectives have been adopted in regard to their treatment, and climate change mitigation and adaptation (CCMA) policies more generally. This article delineates emerging contestations over environmental justice and examines how a certain narrative perspective comes to take precedence and have authority over others. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Indian Sundarbans, it explores the way the material interests and privileges of a particular class of people are maintained at the cost of the marginalization of other social groups, cultures, and nonhuman entities. Finally, it contributes to the anthropology of conservation by explaining how ethnography in the field could better represent multiple narratives that accommodate both human and nonhuman entities, particularly those being marginalized, and, indeed, nature’s centrality to conservation.