This chapter explores how the use of gender and development (GAD) scholarship can extend our understanding of the dynamics of ecological care labour in forest projects to inform equitable compensation. The findings draw from a study in India but hold broader relevance with the growth of carbon projects in tropical forests, the growth of carbon markets, and the increased investment in foreign aid targeting both areas. A gender lens applied alongside a boundary object approach enabled us to reveal and quantify gendered differences in ecological care labour and ecological knowledge. We found that women accounted for nearly two-thirds of households’ time in ecological care yet the nature of their labour does not align well with current pricing mechanisms. GAD scholarship has long alerted us to gendered complexities of land and resource rights but there appears to be limited translation of this in carbon schemes. This urgently needs to change or we will see limited impact for men, women, and planet.