National Strategy & Technical guidelines

Forest and Nature Conservation Management Code of Best Practices

1. Volume I (7680 downloads )
2. Volume II (7580 downloads )
3. Volume III (8733 downloads )
4. Volume IV (7472 downloads )
5. Volume V (7547 downloads )
6. Volume VI (7666 downloads )

Forest Monitoring and Evaluation Documents

1. Forest Monitoring & Evaluation Framework 2024 (1519 downloads )

Strategy, Guidelines, Action Plan & Manual

1. National Agroforestry Strategy and Action Plan (January 2026-December 2035) (113 downloads )
2. Standard Operating Procedure for Creation and Maintenance of Fire Lines (1675 downloads )
3. National Framework for Agarwood Production & Marketing in Bhutan (Oct, 2024) (1639 downloads )
4. Golden Langur Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (782 downloads )
5. Red Panda Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (4301 downloads )
6. National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025-2029 (5146 downloads )
7. Operation Guidelines for Management and Monitoring of High Conservation Value (July 2025) (5105 downloads )
8. Guidelines for Natural Capital Accounting in Protected Areas, March 2025 (933 downloads )
9. Modality for allotment of sites and extraction of timber from Phase II Scientific Thinning through private sector - Oct, 2024 (11979 downloads )
10. Timber Export Guideline - October 2024 (9384 downloads )
11. Forest Canopy Cover Assessment Guidelines 2024 (12292 downloads )
12. Action Plan for Forest Resources Management for Three Years Through Thinning August 2023 to August 2026 (6767 downloads )
13. Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Action Plan (2023-2033) (17385 downloads )
14. Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan (2023-2033) (14109 downloads )
15. National Human Wildlife Conflict Management Strategy of Bhutan (2018 to 2028) (14307 downloads )
16. NRPC guidelines (11691 downloads )
17. Guideline for Wildlife Habitat Management (2158 downloads )
18. Guideline for Open Auction of sites for Surface Collection & RDM Dredging for Export, 2021 (19829 downloads )
19. Forest Resource Potential Assessment, 2013 (20069 downloads )
20. Forest Fire Management Strategy of Bhutan, 2013 (20422 downloads )
21. Framework For Management and Marketing of Non-Wood Forest Products (2022) (17723 downloads )
22. National REDD Strategy & Action plan, 2020 (11422 downloads )
23. National Strategy for the Development of Non-Wood Forest Products 2020 (17960 downloads )
24. National Strategy for Community Forestry, 2019 (6649 downloads )
25. National Strategy for Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (20211 downloads )
26. Action Plan for Bhutan's National Forest Monitoring System for REDD+ under the UNFCCC, 2015 (1790 downloads )
27. Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (11628 downloads )
28. Community Forestry Field Manual, Third Edition, 2018 (19728 downloads )
29. National Strategy for Community Forestry - The Way Ahead, 2010 (20192 downloads )
30. Cordyceps harvesting guideline, 2018 (19910 downloads )
31. Dendrochronology Manual, 2017 (20188 downloads )
32. Elephant Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, 2018-2028 (1671 downloads )
33. Guidelines for Community Forests and NWFP group networks formation, 2018 (20224 downloads )
34. Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluation of Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (20029 downloads )
35. Guideline for Management of Agar-wood Nursery and Plantation in Bhutan, 2020 (20173 downloads )
36. Laboratory manual for Aboveground understory and Soil Organic Carbon Analysis (20136 downloads )
37. Manual for Logging and Timber Harvesting in Community Forests, 2016 (10132 downloads )
38. Guidelines for Monitoring & Evaluation of Community Forestry, 2016 (20116 downloads )
39. Field Manual National Forest Inventory of Bhutan 2020 (18995 downloads )
40. Red Panda Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (1681 downloads )
41. Revised Norms and Standards for Plantation, 2020 (20381 downloads )
42. Forestry Field Manual for Bhutan - Silviculture and Other Forestry Operations, second edition, 2016 (20425 downloads )
43. Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, (2018-2023) (19997 downloads )
44. Marketing Guidelines for Wood-based Products from Community Forests, 2017 (4927 downloads )
45. HEC SAFE system Strategy (20058 downloads )
46. WBH Conservation Action Plan, 2022-2031 (19837 downloads )
47. National Forest Inventory Data Management Protocol (19006 downloads )
48. Implementation Modality for NFI of Bhutan, 2021 (18818 downloads )
49. Bhutan NFI Open Foris Collect User Manual (1232 downloads )
50. Guideline for Open Auction of Sites for Surface Collection and RBM Dredging for Export, 2021 (18941 downloads )
51. Protected Area Zonation Guidelines of Bhutan, 2020 (16994 downloads )
52. Guidelines for Classifying and Managing Key Biodiversity Areas in Bhutan, 2020 (14489 downloads )

Fishing Technical Guidelines

1. Delineation of Mahseer Water and Trout Water in Bhutan (20109 downloads )
2. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Mahseer water in Bhutan (20265 downloads )
3. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Trout and Mahseer water in Bhutan (20344 downloads )
4. Guide to Availing Fishing Permits Online (20259 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 (18748 downloads )
2. Allometric-Biomass-Equations-2018 (19382 downloads )
3. Measurement-Reporting-and-Verification-MRV-System-to-support-REDD-Bhutan (18647 downloads )
4. Abies densa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18985 downloads )
5. Conifers_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18656 downloads )
6. Juniperus_recurva_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18742 downloads )
7. Picea spinulosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18967 downloads )
8. Pinus roxburghii_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18868 downloads )
9. Pinus wallichiana__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18741 downloads )
10. Quercus lanata__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18866 downloads )
11. Tsuga dumosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (18802 downloads )