National Strategy & Technical guidelines

Forest and Nature Conservation Management Code of Best Practices

  1. Volume I (7665 downloads )
  2. Volume II (7560 downloads )
  3. Volume III (8708 downloads )
  4. Volume IV (7459 downloads )
  5. Volume V (7535 downloads )
  6. Volume VI (7655 downloads )

 

Forest Monitoring and Evaluation Documents

  1. Forest Monitoring & Evaluation Framework 2024 (1508 downloads )

 

Strategy, Guidelines, Action Plan & Manual

  1. National Agroforestry Strategy and Action Plan (January 2026-December 2035) (86 downloads )
  2. Standard Operating Procedure for Creation and Maintenance of Fire Lines (1484 downloads )
  3. National Framework for Agarwood Production & Marketing in Bhutan (Oct, 2024) (1448 downloads )
  4. Golden Langur Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (770 downloads )
  5. Red Panda Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (4157 downloads )
  6. National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025-2029 (4952 downloads )
  7. Operation Guidelines for Management and Monitoring of High Conservation Value (July 2025) (4915 downloads )
  8. Guidelines for Natural Capital Accounting in Protected Areas, March 2025 (921 downloads )
  9. Modality for allotment of sites and extraction of timber from Phase II Scientific Thinning through private sector - Oct, 2024 (11794 downloads )
  10. Timber Export Guideline - October 2024 (9250 downloads )
  11. Forest Canopy Cover Assessment Guidelines 2024 (12094 downloads )
  12. Action Plan for Forest Resources Management for Three Years Through Thinning August 2023 to August 2026 (6572 downloads )
  13. Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Action Plan (2023-2033) (17191 downloads )
  14. Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan (2023-2033) (13941 downloads )
  15. National Human Wildlife Conflict Management Strategy of Bhutan (2018 to 2028) (14112 downloads )
  16. NRPC guidelines (11545 downloads )
  17. Guideline for Wildlife Habitat Management (2143 downloads )
  18. Guideline for Open Auction of sites for Surface Collection & RDM Dredging for Export, 2021 (19630 downloads )
  19. Forest Resource Potential Assessment, 2013 (19871 downloads )
  20. Forest Fire Management Strategy of Bhutan, 2013 (20220 downloads )
  21. Framework For Management and Marketing of Non-Wood Forest Products (2022) (17523 downloads )
  22. National REDD Strategy & Action plan, 2020 (11275 downloads )
  23. National Strategy for the Development of Non-Wood Forest Products 2020 (17771 downloads )
  24. National Strategy for Community Forestry, 2019 (6449 downloads )
  25. National Strategy for Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (20015 downloads )
  26. Action Plan for Bhutan's National Forest Monitoring System for REDD+ under the UNFCCC, 2015 (1772 downloads )
  27. Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (11478 downloads )
  28. Community Forestry Field Manual, Third Edition, 2018 (19536 downloads )
  29. National Strategy for Community Forestry - The Way Ahead, 2010 (19995 downloads )
  30. Cordyceps harvesting guideline, 2018 (19714 downloads )
  31. Dendrochronology Manual, 2017 (19984 downloads )
  32. Elephant Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, 2018-2028 (1655 downloads )
  33. Guidelines for Community Forests and NWFP group networks formation, 2018 (20015 downloads )
  34. Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluation of Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (19833 downloads )
  35. Guideline for Management of Agar-wood Nursery and Plantation in Bhutan, 2020 (19977 downloads )
  36. Laboratory manual for Aboveground understory and Soil Organic Carbon Analysis (19928 downloads )
  37. Manual for Logging and Timber Harvesting in Community Forests, 2016 (10025 downloads )
  38. Guidelines for Monitoring & Evaluation of Community Forestry, 2016 (19915 downloads )
  39. Field Manual National Forest Inventory of Bhutan 2020 (18799 downloads )
  40. Red Panda Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (1665 downloads )
  41. Revised Norms and Standards for Plantation, 2020 (20185 downloads )
  42. Forestry Field Manual for Bhutan - Silviculture and Other Forestry Operations, second edition, 2016 (20221 downloads )
  43. Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, (2018-2023) (19792 downloads )
  44. Marketing Guidelines for Wood-based Products from Community Forests, 2017 (4894 downloads )
  45. HEC SAFE system Strategy (19860 downloads )
  46. WBH Conservation Action Plan, 2022-2031 (19642 downloads )
  47. National Forest Inventory Data Management Protocol (18811 downloads )
  48. Implementation Modality for NFI of Bhutan, 2021 (18623 downloads )
  49. Bhutan NFI Open Foris Collect User Manual (1219 downloads )
  50. Guideline for Open Auction of Sites for Surface Collection and RBM Dredging for Export, 2021 (18740 downloads )
  51. Protected Area Zonation Guidelines of Bhutan, 2020 (16802 downloads )
  52. Guidelines for Classifying and Managing Key Biodiversity Areas in Bhutan, 2020 (14312 downloads )

Fishing Technical Guidelines

  1. Delineation of Mahseer Water and Trout Water in Bhutan (19915 downloads )
  2. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Mahseer water in Bhutan (20072 downloads )
  3. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Trout and Mahseer water in Bhutan (20150 downloads )
  4. Guide to Availing Fishing Permits Online (20058 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 (18554 downloads )
  2. Allometric-Biomass-Equations-2018 (19186 downloads )
  3. Measurement-Reporting-and-Verification-MRV-System-to-support-REDD-Bhutan (18453 downloads )
  4. Abies densa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18789 downloads )
  5. Conifers_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18459 downloads )
  6. Juniperus_recurva_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18543 downloads )
  7. Picea spinulosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18764 downloads )
  8. Pinus roxburghii_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18671 downloads )
  9. Pinus wallichiana__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18548 downloads )
  10. Quercus lanata__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18664 downloads )
  11. Tsuga dumosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18609 downloads )

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