National Strategy & Technical guidelines

Forest and Nature Conservation Management Code of Best Practices

1. Volume I (6776 downloads )
2. Volume II (6788 downloads )
3. Volume III (7503 downloads )
4. Volume IV (6590 downloads )
5. Volume V (6750 downloads )
6. Volume VI (6777 downloads )

Forest Monitoring and Evaluation Documents

1. Forest Monitoring & Evaluation Framework 2024 (771 downloads )

Strategy, Guidelines, Action Plan & Manual

1. Golden Langur Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (115 downloads )
2. Red Panda Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (1171 downloads )
3. National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025-2029 (1557 downloads )
4. Operation Guidelines for Management and Monitoring of High Conservation Value (July 2025) (1569 downloads )
5. Guidelines for Natural Capital Accounting in Protected Areas, March 2025 (205 downloads )
6. Modality for allotment of sites and extraction of timber from Phase II Scientific Thinning through private sector - Oct, 2024 (8024 downloads )
7. Timber Export Guideline - October 2024 (6241 downloads )
8. Forest Canopy Cover Assessment Guidelines 2024 (8493 downloads )
9. Action Plan for Forest Resources Management for Three Years Through Thinning August 2023 to August 2026 (3184 downloads )
10. Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Action Plan (2023-2033) (13563 downloads )
11. Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan (2023-2033) (10420 downloads )
12. National Human Wildlife Conflict Management Strategy of Bhutan (2018 to 2028) (10517 downloads )
13. NRPC guidelines (8441 downloads )
14. Guideline for Wildlife Habitat Management (1429 downloads )
15. Guideline for Open Auction of sites for Surface Collection & RDM Dredging for Export, 2021 (16226 downloads )
16. Forest Resource Potential Assessment, 2013 (16184 downloads )
17. Forest Fire Management Strategy of Bhutan, 2013 (16461 downloads )
18. Framework For Management and Marketing of Non-Wood Forest Products (2022) (13932 downloads )
19. National REDD Strategy & Action plan, 2020 (8036 downloads )
20. National Strategy for the Development of Non-Wood Forest Products 2020 (14021 downloads )
21. National Strategy for Community Forestry, 2019 (2993 downloads )
22. National Strategy for Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (16359 downloads )
23. Action Plan for Bhutan's National Forest Monitoring System for REDD+ under the UNFCCC, 2015 (1020 downloads )
24. Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (8076 downloads )
25. Community Forestry Field Manual, Third Edition, 2018 (15943 downloads )
26. National Strategy for Community Forestry - The Way Ahead, 2010 (16308 downloads )
27. Cordyceps harvesting guideline, 2018 (16168 downloads )
28. Dendrochronology Manual, 2017 (16353 downloads )
29. Elephant Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, 2018-2028 (989 downloads )
30. Guidelines for Community Forests and NWFP group networks formation, 2018 (16347 downloads )
31. Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluation of Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (16238 downloads )
32. Guideline for Management of Agar-wood Nursery and Plantation in Bhutan, 2020 (16311 downloads )
33. Laboratory manual for Aboveground understory and Soil Organic Carbon Analysis (16295 downloads )
34. Manual for Logging and Timber Harvesting in Community Forests, 2016 (7065 downloads )
35. Guidelines for Monitoring & Evaluation of Community Forestry, 2016 (16327 downloads )
36. Field Manual National Forest Inventory of Bhutan 2020 (15160 downloads )
37. Red Panda Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (996 downloads )
38. Revised Norms and Standards for Plantation, 2020 (16567 downloads )
39. Forestry Field Manual for Bhutan - Silviculture and Other Forestry Operations, second edition, 2016 (16374 downloads )
40. Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, (2018-2023) (16163 downloads )
41. Marketing Guidelines for Wood-based Products from Community Forests, 2017 (3453 downloads )
42. HEC SAFE system Strategy (16287 downloads )
43. WBH Conservation Action Plan, 2022-2031 (16111 downloads )
44. National Forest Inventory Data Management Protocol (15211 downloads )
45. Implementation Modality for NFI of Bhutan, 2021 (15121 downloads )
46. Bhutan NFI Open Foris Collect User Manual (516 downloads )
47. Guideline for Open Auction of Sites for Surface Collection and RBM Dredging for Export, 2021 (14897 downloads )
48. Protected Area Zonation Guidelines of Bhutan, 2020 (13233 downloads )
49. Guidelines for Classifying and Managing Key Biodiversity Areas in Bhutan, 2020 (10762 downloads )

Fishing Technical Guidelines

1. Delineation of Mahseer Water and Trout Water in Bhutan (16208 downloads )
2. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Mahseer water in Bhutan (16381 downloads )
3. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Trout and Mahseer water in Bhutan (16383 downloads )
4. Guide to Availing Fishing Permits Online (16308 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 (14967 downloads )
2. Allometric-Biomass-Equations-2018 (15301 downloads )
3. Measurement-Reporting-and-Verification-MRV-System-to-support-REDD-Bhutan (14856 downloads )
4. Abies densa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (15062 downloads )
5. Conifers_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14916 downloads )
6. Juniperus_recurva_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14968 downloads )
7. Picea spinulosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (15048 downloads )
8. Pinus roxburghii_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (15028 downloads )
9. Pinus wallichiana__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14946 downloads )
10. Quercus lanata__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (15039 downloads )
11. Tsuga dumosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14974 downloads )