National Strategy & Technical guidelines

Forest and Nature Conservation Management Code of Best Practices

1. Volume I (8339 downloads )
2. Volume II (8236 downloads )
3. Volume III (10237 downloads )
4. Volume IV (8153 downloads )
5. Volume V (8240 downloads )
6. Volume VI (8297 downloads )

Forest Monitoring and Evaluation Documents

1. Forest Monitoring & Evaluation Framework 2024 (2340 downloads )

Strategy, Guidelines, Action Plan & Manual

Guidelines

1. Operation Guidelines for Management and Monitoring of High Conservation Value (July 2025) (15377 downloads )
2. Guidelines for Natural Capital Accounting in Protected Areas, March 2025 (1722 downloads )
3. Timber Export Guideline - October 2024 (16979 downloads )
4. Forest Canopy Cover Assessment Guidelines 2024 (22783 downloads )
5. NRPC guidelines (20836 downloads )
6. Guideline for Wildlife Habitat Management (2997 downloads )
7. Guideline for Open Auction of sites for Surface Collection & RDM Dredging for Export, 2021 (30134 downloads )
8. Cordyceps harvesting guideline, 2018 (30326 downloads )
9. Guidelines for Monitoring & Evaluation of Community Forestry, 2016 (30663 downloads )
10. Marketing Guidelines for Wood-based Products from Community Forests, 2017 (7377 downloads )
11. Guideline for Open Auction of Sites for Surface Collection and RBM Dredging for Export, 2021 (29191 downloads )
12. Protected Area Zonation Guidelines of Bhutan, 2020 (27448 downloads )
13. Guidelines for Classifying and Managing Key Biodiversity Areas in Bhutan, 2020 (24306 downloads )

Action Plans

1. Golden Langur Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (1469 downloads )
2. Red Panda Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (12798 downloads )
3. Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Action Plan (2023-2033) (28094 downloads )
4. Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan (2023-2033) (24250 downloads )
5. Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (20626 downloads )
6. Elephant Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, 2018-2028 (2360 downloads )
7. Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, (2018-2023) (30500 downloads )
8. National Agroforestry Strategy and Action Plan (January 2026-December 2035) (1756 downloads )
9. Action Plan for Forest Resources Management for Three Years Through Thinning August 2023 to August 2026 (17026 downloads )
10. Red Panda Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (2294 downloads )
11. WBH Conservation Action Plan, 2022-2031 (30271 downloads )
12. Action Plan for Bhutan's National Forest Monitoring System for REDD+ under the UNFCCC, 2015 (2564 downloads )

Manuals

1. Community Forestry Field Manual, Third Edition, 2018 (30069 downloads )
2. Dendrochronology Manual, 2017 (30748 downloads )
3. Manual for Logging and Timber Harvesting in Community Forests, 2016 (17228 downloads )
4. Field Manual National Forest Inventory of Bhutan 2020 (29721 downloads )
5. Laboratory manual for Aboveground understory and Soil Organic Carbon Analysis (30713 downloads )
6. Forestry Field Manual for Bhutan - Silviculture and Other Forestry Operations, second edition, 2016 (30979 downloads )
7. Bhutan NFI Open Foris Collect User Manual (1824 downloads )

Strategies

1. National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025-2029 (15501 downloads )
2. National Human Wildlife Conflict Management Strategy of Bhutan (2018 to 2028) (25223 downloads )
3. National Strategy for the Development of Non-Wood Forest Products 2020 (28442 downloads )
4. National Strategy for Community Forestry, 2019 (17254 downloads )
5. National Strategy for Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (30778 downloads )
6. National Strategy for Community Forestry - The Way Ahead, 2010 (30755 downloads )
7. Forest Fire Management Strategy of Bhutan, 2013 (31071 downloads )
8. National REDD Strategy & Action plan, 2020 (20194 downloads )
9. HEC SAFE system Strategy (30507 downloads )

Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Norm & Standards

1. Standard Operating Procedure for Creation and Maintenance of Fire Lines (11990 downloads )
2. Revised Norms and Standards for Plantation, 2020 (30834 downloads )

Modality, Protocols & Frameworks

1. National Framework for Agarwood Production & Marketing in Bhutan (Oct, 2024) (11933 downloads )
2. Framework For Management and Marketing of Non-Wood Forest Products (2022) (28245 downloads )
3. Modality for allotment of sites and extraction of timber from Phase II Scientific Thinning through private sector - Oct, 2024 (22119 downloads )

Fishing Technical Guidelines

1. Delineation of Mahseer Water and Trout Water in Bhutan (30690 downloads )
2. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Mahseer water in Bhutan (30732 downloads )
3. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Trout and Mahseer water in Bhutan (30904 downloads )
4. Guide to Availing Fishing Permits Online (30794 downloads )

National Forest Inventory Documents

1. Aboveground-Tree-Biomass-Density-Mapping-for-pilot-sites-of-Thimphu-and-Paro-Dzongkhag-Bhutan-using-NFI-and-ALOS-PALSAR-2-Mosaic-data (29183 downloads )
2. Allometric-Biomass-Equations-2018 (30001 downloads )
3. Measurement-Reporting-and-Verification-MRV-System-to-support-REDD-Bhutan (29122 downloads )
4. Abies densa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29415 downloads )
5. Conifers_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29074 downloads )
6. Juniperus_recurva_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29156 downloads )
7. Picea spinulosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29374 downloads )
8. Pinus roxburghii_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29311 downloads )
9. Pinus wallichiana__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29167 downloads )
10. Quercus lanata__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29321 downloads )
11. Tsuga dumosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29224 downloads )