National Strategy & Technical guidelines

Forest and Nature Conservation Management Code of Best Practices

1. Volume I (8058 downloads )
2. Volume II (7939 downloads )
3. Volume III (9914 downloads )
4. Volume IV (7840 downloads )
5. Volume V (7978 downloads )
6. Volume VI (8050 downloads )

Forest Monitoring and Evaluation Documents

1. Forest Monitoring & Evaluation Framework 2024 (1980 downloads )

Strategy, Guidelines, Action Plan & Manual

1. National Agroforestry Strategy and Action Plan (January 2026-December 2035) (1472 downloads )
2. Standard Operating Procedure for Creation and Maintenance of Fire Lines (11665 downloads )
3. National Framework for Agarwood Production & Marketing in Bhutan (Oct, 2024) (11628 downloads )
4. Golden Langur Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (1185 downloads )
5. Red Panda Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (12504 downloads )
6. National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025-2029 (15153 downloads )
7. Operation Guidelines for Management and Monitoring of High Conservation Value (July 2025) (15075 downloads )
8. Guidelines for Natural Capital Accounting in Protected Areas, March 2025 (1422 downloads )
9. Modality for allotment of sites and extraction of timber from Phase II Scientific Thinning through private sector - Oct, 2024 (21680 downloads )
10. Timber Export Guideline - October 2024 (16721 downloads )
11. Forest Canopy Cover Assessment Guidelines 2024 (22432 downloads )
12. Action Plan for Forest Resources Management for Three Years Through Thinning August 2023 to August 2026 (16735 downloads )
13. Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Action Plan (2023-2033) (27667 downloads )
14. Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan (2023-2033) (23837 downloads )
15. National Human Wildlife Conflict Management Strategy of Bhutan (2018 to 2028) (24578 downloads )
16. NRPC guidelines (20457 downloads )
17. Guideline for Wildlife Habitat Management (2661 downloads )
18. Guideline for Open Auction of sites for Surface Collection & RDM Dredging for Export, 2021 (29922 downloads )
19. Forest Resource Potential Assessment, 2013 (30349 downloads )
20. Forest Fire Management Strategy of Bhutan, 2013 (30753 downloads )
21. Framework For Management and Marketing of Non-Wood Forest Products (2022) (27832 downloads )
22. National REDD Strategy & Action plan, 2020 (19880 downloads )
23. National Strategy for the Development of Non-Wood Forest Products 2020 (28101 downloads )
24. National Strategy for Community Forestry, 2019 (16953 downloads )
25. National Strategy for Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (30482 downloads )
26. Action Plan for Bhutan's National Forest Monitoring System for REDD+ under the UNFCCC, 2015 (2245 downloads )
27. Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (20334 downloads )
28. Community Forestry Field Manual, Third Edition, 2018 (29786 downloads )
29. National Strategy for Community Forestry - The Way Ahead, 2010 (30426 downloads )
30. Cordyceps harvesting guideline, 2018 (30065 downloads )
31. Dendrochronology Manual, 2017 (30439 downloads )
32. Elephant Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, 2018-2028 (2055 downloads )
33. Guidelines for Community Forests and NWFP group networks formation, 2018 (30440 downloads )
34. Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluation of Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (30230 downloads )
35. Guideline for Management of Agar-wood Nursery and Plantation in Bhutan, 2020 (30295 downloads )
36. Laboratory manual for Aboveground understory and Soil Organic Carbon Analysis (30389 downloads )
37. Manual for Logging and Timber Harvesting in Community Forests, 2016 (17045 downloads )
38. Guidelines for Monitoring & Evaluation of Community Forestry, 2016 (30339 downloads )
39. Field Manual National Forest Inventory of Bhutan 2020 (29200 downloads )
40. Red Panda Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (2001 downloads )
41. Revised Norms and Standards for Plantation, 2020 (30510 downloads )
42. Forestry Field Manual for Bhutan - Silviculture and Other Forestry Operations, second edition, 2016 (30623 downloads )
43. Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, (2018-2023) (30161 downloads )
44. Marketing Guidelines for Wood-based Products from Community Forests, 2017 (7212 downloads )
45. HEC SAFE system Strategy (30200 downloads )
46. WBH Conservation Action Plan, 2022-2031 (29987 downloads )
47. National Forest Inventory Data Management Protocol (29186 downloads )
48. Implementation Modality for NFI of Bhutan, 2021 (29031 downloads )
49. Bhutan NFI Open Foris Collect User Manual (1559 downloads )
50. Guideline for Open Auction of Sites for Surface Collection and RBM Dredging for Export, 2021 (28989 downloads )
51. Protected Area Zonation Guidelines of Bhutan, 2020 (27104 downloads )
52. Guidelines for Classifying and Managing Key Biodiversity Areas in Bhutan, 2020 (23995 downloads )

Fishing Technical Guidelines

1. Delineation of Mahseer Water and Trout Water in Bhutan (30312 downloads )
2. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Mahseer water in Bhutan (30434 downloads )
3. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Trout and Mahseer water in Bhutan (30564 downloads )
4. Guide to Availing Fishing Permits Online (30472 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 (28876 downloads )
2. Allometric-Biomass-Equations-2018 (29667 downloads )
3. Measurement-Reporting-and-Verification-MRV-System-to-support-REDD-Bhutan (28810 downloads )
4. Abies densa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29092 downloads )
5. Conifers_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (28743 downloads )
6. Juniperus_recurva_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (28845 downloads )
7. Picea spinulosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29076 downloads )
8. Pinus roxburghii_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (28983 downloads )
9. Pinus wallichiana__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (28858 downloads )
10. Quercus lanata__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (29018 downloads )
11. Tsuga dumosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (28928 downloads )