National Strategy & Technical guidelines

Forest and Nature Conservation Management Code of Best Practices

1. Volume I (6601 downloads )
2. Volume II (6627 downloads )
3. Volume III (7220 downloads )
4. Volume IV (6433 downloads )
5. Volume V (6589 downloads )
6. Volume VI (6577 downloads )

Forest Monitoring and Evaluation Documents

1. Forest Monitoring & Evaluation Framework 2024 (656 downloads )

Strategy, Guidelines, Action Plan & Manual

1. Golden Langur Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (31 downloads )
2. Red Panda Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (301 downloads )
3. National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025-2029 (612 downloads )
4. Operation Guidelines for Management and Monitoring of High Conservation Value (July 2025) (624 downloads )
5. Guidelines for Natural Capital Accounting in Protected Areas, March 2025 (98 downloads )
6. Modality for allotment of sites and extraction of timber from Phase II Scientific Thinning through private sector - Oct, 2024 (7042 downloads )
7. Timber Export Guideline - October 2024 (5377 downloads )
8. Forest Canopy Cover Assessment Guidelines 2024 (7505 downloads )
9. Action Plan for Forest Resources Management for Three Years Through Thinning August 2023 to August 2026 (2226 downloads )
10. Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Action Plan (2023-2033) (12571 downloads )
11. Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan (2023-2033) (9462 downloads )
12. National Human Wildlife Conflict Management Strategy of Bhutan (2018 to 2028) (9536 downloads )
13. NRPC guidelines (7523 downloads )
14. Guideline for Wildlife Habitat Management (1308 downloads )
15. Guideline for Open Auction of sites for Surface Collection & RDM Dredging for Export, 2021 (15266 downloads )
16. Forest Resource Potential Assessment, 2013 (15218 downloads )
17. Forest Fire Management Strategy of Bhutan, 2013 (15461 downloads )
18. Framework For Management and Marketing of Non-Wood Forest Products (2022) (12957 downloads )
19. National REDD Strategy & Action plan, 2020 (7155 downloads )
20. National Strategy for the Development of Non-Wood Forest Products 2020 (12978 downloads )
21. National Strategy for Community Forestry, 2019 (2028 downloads )
22. National Strategy for Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (15364 downloads )
23. Action Plan for Bhutan's National Forest Monitoring System for REDD+ under the UNFCCC, 2015 (909 downloads )
24. Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (7188 downloads )
25. Community Forestry Field Manual, Third Edition, 2018 (14970 downloads )
26. National Strategy for Community Forestry - The Way Ahead, 2010 (15333 downloads )
27. Cordyceps harvesting guideline, 2018 (15193 downloads )
28. Dendrochronology Manual, 2017 (15368 downloads )
29. Elephant Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, 2018-2028 (887 downloads )
30. Guidelines for Community Forests and NWFP group networks formation, 2018 (15383 downloads )
31. Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluation of Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (15272 downloads )
32. Guideline for Management of Agar-wood Nursery and Plantation in Bhutan, 2020 (15327 downloads )
33. Laboratory manual for Aboveground understory and Soil Organic Carbon Analysis (15326 downloads )
34. Manual for Logging and Timber Harvesting in Community Forests, 2016 (6278 downloads )
35. Guidelines for Monitoring & Evaluation of Community Forestry, 2016 (15365 downloads )
36. Field Manual National Forest Inventory of Bhutan 2020 (14173 downloads )
37. Red Panda Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (895 downloads )
38. Revised Norms and Standards for Plantation, 2020 (15566 downloads )
39. Forestry Field Manual for Bhutan - Silviculture and Other Forestry Operations, second edition, 2016 (15380 downloads )
40. Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, (2018-2023) (15163 downloads )
41. Marketing Guidelines for Wood-based Products from Community Forests, 2017 (3137 downloads )
42. HEC SAFE system Strategy (15320 downloads )
43. WBH Conservation Action Plan, 2022-2031 (15124 downloads )
44. National Forest Inventory Data Management Protocol (14211 downloads )
45. Implementation Modality for NFI of Bhutan, 2021 (14138 downloads )
46. Bhutan NFI Open Foris Collect User Manual (414 downloads )
47. Guideline for Open Auction of Sites for Surface Collection and RBM Dredging for Export, 2021 (13901 downloads )
48. Protected Area Zonation Guidelines of Bhutan, 2020 (12259 downloads )
49. Guidelines for Classifying and Managing Key Biodiversity Areas in Bhutan, 2020 (9810 downloads )

Fishing Technical Guidelines

1. Delineation of Mahseer Water and Trout Water in Bhutan (15217 downloads )
2. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Mahseer water in Bhutan (15398 downloads )
3. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Trout and Mahseer water in Bhutan (15357 downloads )
4. Guide to Availing Fishing Permits Online (15336 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 (13985 downloads )
2. Allometric-Biomass-Equations-2018 (14283 downloads )
3. Measurement-Reporting-and-Verification-MRV-System-to-support-REDD-Bhutan (13868 downloads )
4. Abies densa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14083 downloads )
5. Conifers_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13932 downloads )
6. Juniperus_recurva_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14002 downloads )
7. Picea spinulosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14048 downloads )
8. Pinus roxburghii_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14066 downloads )
9. Pinus wallichiana__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13969 downloads )
10. Quercus lanata__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14044 downloads )
11. Tsuga dumosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (13989 downloads )