National Strategy & Technical guidelines

Forest and Nature Conservation Management Code of Best Practices

1. Volume I (6475 downloads )
2. Volume II (6509 downloads )
3. Volume III (7055 downloads )
4. Volume IV (6309 downloads )
5. Volume V (6475 downloads )
6. Volume VI (6450 downloads )

Forest Monitoring and Evaluation Documents

1. Forest Monitoring & Evaluation Framework 2024 (585 downloads )

Strategy, Guidelines, Action Plan & Manual

1. National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025-2029 (29 downloads )
2. Operation Guidelines for Management and Monitoring of High Conservation Value (July 2025) (31 downloads )
3. Guidelines for Natural Capital Accounting in Protected Areas, March 2025 (37 downloads )
4. Modality for allotment of sites and extraction of timber from Phase II Scientific Thinning through private sector - Oct, 2024 (6426 downloads )
5. Timber Export Guideline - October 2024 (4860 downloads )
6. Forest Canopy Cover Assessment Guidelines 2024 (6879 downloads )
7. Action Plan for Forest Resources Management for Three Years Through Thinning August 2023 to August 2026 (1633 downloads )
8. Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Action Plan (2023-2033) (11959 downloads )
9. Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan (2023-2033) (8887 downloads )
10. National Human Wildlife Conflict Management Strategy of Bhutan (2018 to 2028) (8925 downloads )
11. NRPC guidelines (6952 downloads )
12. Guideline for Wildlife Habitat Management (1229 downloads )
13. Guideline for Open Auction of sites for Surface Collection & RDM Dredging for Export, 2021 (14657 downloads )
14. Forest Resource Potential Assessment, 2013 (14596 downloads )
15. Forest Fire Management Strategy of Bhutan, 2013 (14841 downloads )
16. Framework For Management and Marketing of Non-Wood Forest Products (2022) (12345 downloads )
17. National REDD Strategy & Action plan, 2020 (6594 downloads )
18. National Strategy for the Development of Non-Wood Forest Products 2020 (12358 downloads )
19. National Strategy for Community Forestry, 2019 (1430 downloads )
20. National Strategy for Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (14739 downloads )
21. Action Plan for Bhutan's National Forest Monitoring System for REDD+ under the UNFCCC, 2015 (844 downloads )
22. Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (6633 downloads )
23. Community Forestry Field Manual, Third Edition, 2018 (14369 downloads )
24. National Strategy for Community Forestry - The Way Ahead, 2010 (14713 downloads )
25. Cordyceps harvesting guideline, 2018 (14598 downloads )
26. Dendrochronology Manual, 2017 (14747 downloads )
27. Elephant Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, 2018-2028 (827 downloads )
28. Guidelines for Community Forests and NWFP group networks formation, 2018 (14768 downloads )
29. Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluation of Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (14662 downloads )
30. Guideline for Management of Agar-wood Nursery and Plantation in Bhutan, 2020 (14715 downloads )
31. Laboratory manual for Aboveground understory and Soil Organic Carbon Analysis (14705 downloads )
32. Manual for Logging and Timber Harvesting in Community Forests, 2016 (5820 downloads )
33. Guidelines for Monitoring & Evaluation of Community Forestry, 2016 (14749 downloads )
34. Field Manual National Forest Inventory of Bhutan 2020 (13560 downloads )
35. Red Panda Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (835 downloads )
36. Revised Norms and Standards for Plantation, 2020 (14953 downloads )
37. Forestry Field Manual for Bhutan - Silviculture and Other Forestry Operations, second edition, 2016 (14756 downloads )
38. Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, (2018-2023) (14553 downloads )
39. Marketing Guidelines for Wood-based Products from Community Forests, 2017 (2980 downloads )
40. HEC SAFE system Strategy (14720 downloads )
41. WBH Conservation Action Plan, 2022-2031 (14517 downloads )
42. National Forest Inventory Data Management Protocol (13590 downloads )
43. Implementation Modality for NFI of Bhutan, 2021 (13535 downloads )
44. Bhutan NFI Open Foris Collect User Manual (350 downloads )
45. Guideline for Open Auction of Sites for Surface Collection and RBM Dredging for Export, 2021 (13255 downloads )
46. Protected Area Zonation Guidelines of Bhutan, 2020 (11649 downloads )
47. Guidelines for Classifying and Managing Key Biodiversity Areas in Bhutan, 2020 (9213 downloads )

Fishing Technical Guidelines

1. Delineation of Mahseer Water and Trout Water in Bhutan (14589 downloads )
2. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Mahseer water in Bhutan (14785 downloads )
3. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Trout and Mahseer water in Bhutan (14708 downloads )
4. Guide to Availing Fishing Permits Online (14731 downloads )

NFI documents

1. Aboveground-Tree-Biomass-Density-Mapping-for-pilot-sites-of-Thimphu-and-Paro-Dzongkhag-Bhutan-using-NFI-and-ALOS-PALSAR-2-Mosaic-data (13386 downloads )
2. Allometric-Biomass-Equations-2018 (13667 downloads )
3. Measurement-Reporting-and-Verification-MRV-System-to-support-REDD-Bhutan (13261 downloads )
4. Abies densa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13460 downloads )
5. Conifers_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13325 downloads )
6. Juniperus_recurva_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13390 downloads )
7. Picea spinulosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13435 downloads )
8. Pinus roxburghii_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13443 downloads )
9. Pinus wallichiana__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13363 downloads )
10. Quercus lanata__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13443 downloads )
11. Tsuga dumosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13381 downloads )