National Strategy & Technical guidelines

Forest and Nature Conservation Management Code of Best Practices

1. Volume I (7646 downloads )
2. Volume II (7540 downloads )
3. Volume III (8664 downloads )
4. Volume IV (7437 downloads )
5. Volume V (7515 downloads )
6. Volume VI (7633 downloads )

Forest Monitoring and Evaluation Documents

1. Forest Monitoring & Evaluation Framework 2024 (1495 downloads )

Strategy, Guidelines, Action Plan & Manual

1. National Agroforestry Strategy and Action Plan (January 2026-December 2035) (56 downloads )
2. Standard Operating Procedure for Creation and Maintenance of Fire Lines (881 downloads )
3. National Framework for Agarwood Production & Marketing in Bhutan (Oct, 2024) (856 downloads )
4. Golden Langur Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (756 downloads )
5. Red Panda Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (3731 downloads )
6. National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025-2029 (4347 downloads )
7. Operation Guidelines for Management and Monitoring of High Conservation Value (July 2025) (4316 downloads )
8. Guidelines for Natural Capital Accounting in Protected Areas, March 2025 (907 downloads )
9. Modality for allotment of sites and extraction of timber from Phase II Scientific Thinning through private sector - Oct, 2024 (11230 downloads )
10. Timber Export Guideline - October 2024 (8901 downloads )
11. Forest Canopy Cover Assessment Guidelines 2024 (11481 downloads )
12. Action Plan for Forest Resources Management for Three Years Through Thinning August 2023 to August 2026 (5968 downloads )
13. Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Action Plan (2023-2033) (16576 downloads )
14. Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan (2023-2033) (13403 downloads )
15. National Human Wildlife Conflict Management Strategy of Bhutan (2018 to 2028) (13504 downloads )
16. NRPC guidelines (11087 downloads )
17. Guideline for Wildlife Habitat Management (2124 downloads )
18. Guideline for Open Auction of sites for Surface Collection & RDM Dredging for Export, 2021 (19030 downloads )
19. Forest Resource Potential Assessment, 2013 (19257 downloads )
20. Forest Fire Management Strategy of Bhutan, 2013 (19590 downloads )
21. Framework For Management and Marketing of Non-Wood Forest Products (2022) (16919 downloads )
22. National REDD Strategy & Action plan, 2020 (10856 downloads )
23. National Strategy for the Development of Non-Wood Forest Products 2020 (17169 downloads )
24. National Strategy for Community Forestry, 2019 (5828 downloads )
25. National Strategy for Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (19404 downloads )
26. Action Plan for Bhutan's National Forest Monitoring System for REDD+ under the UNFCCC, 2015 (1762 downloads )
27. Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (11022 downloads )
28. Community Forestry Field Manual, Third Edition, 2018 (18940 downloads )
29. National Strategy for Community Forestry - The Way Ahead, 2010 (19381 downloads )
30. Cordyceps harvesting guideline, 2018 (19103 downloads )
31. Dendrochronology Manual, 2017 (19372 downloads )
32. Elephant Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, 2018-2028 (1643 downloads )
33. Guidelines for Community Forests and NWFP group networks formation, 2018 (19407 downloads )
34. Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluation of Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (19228 downloads )
35. Guideline for Management of Agar-wood Nursery and Plantation in Bhutan, 2020 (19371 downloads )
36. Laboratory manual for Aboveground understory and Soil Organic Carbon Analysis (19321 downloads )
37. Manual for Logging and Timber Harvesting in Community Forests, 2016 (9717 downloads )
38. Guidelines for Monitoring & Evaluation of Community Forestry, 2016 (19306 downloads )
39. Field Manual National Forest Inventory of Bhutan 2020 (18191 downloads )
40. Red Panda Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (1655 downloads )
41. Revised Norms and Standards for Plantation, 2020 (19583 downloads )
42. Forestry Field Manual for Bhutan - Silviculture and Other Forestry Operations, second edition, 2016 (19610 downloads )
43. Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, (2018-2023) (19185 downloads )
44. Marketing Guidelines for Wood-based Products from Community Forests, 2017 (4827 downloads )
45. HEC SAFE system Strategy (19255 downloads )
46. WBH Conservation Action Plan, 2022-2031 (19029 downloads )
47. National Forest Inventory Data Management Protocol (18206 downloads )
48. Implementation Modality for NFI of Bhutan, 2021 (18015 downloads )
49. Bhutan NFI Open Foris Collect User Manual (1212 downloads )
50. Guideline for Open Auction of Sites for Surface Collection and RBM Dredging for Export, 2021 (18137 downloads )
51. Protected Area Zonation Guidelines of Bhutan, 2020 (16196 downloads )
52. Guidelines for Classifying and Managing Key Biodiversity Areas in Bhutan, 2020 (13772 downloads )

Fishing Technical Guidelines

1. Delineation of Mahseer Water and Trout Water in Bhutan (19298 downloads )
2. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Mahseer water in Bhutan (19434 downloads )
3. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Trout and Mahseer water in Bhutan (19538 downloads )
4. Guide to Availing Fishing Permits Online (19451 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 (17947 downloads )
2. Allometric-Biomass-Equations-2018 (18579 downloads )
3. Measurement-Reporting-and-Verification-MRV-System-to-support-REDD-Bhutan (17847 downloads )
4. Abies densa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18182 downloads )
5. Conifers_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (17860 downloads )
6. Juniperus_recurva_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (17942 downloads )
7. Picea spinulosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18152 downloads )
8. Pinus roxburghii_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18069 downloads )
9. Pinus wallichiana__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (17949 downloads )
10. Quercus lanata__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18058 downloads )
11. Tsuga dumosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (17998 downloads )