National Strategy & Technical guidelines

Forest and Nature Conservation Management Code of Best Practices

1. Volume I (6619 downloads )
2. Volume II (6648 downloads )
3. Volume III (7245 downloads )
4. Volume IV (6450 downloads )
5. Volume V (6608 downloads )
6. Volume VI (6600 downloads )

Forest Monitoring and Evaluation Documents

1. Forest Monitoring & Evaluation Framework 2024 (669 downloads )

Strategy, Guidelines, Action Plan & Manual

1. Golden Langur Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (37 downloads )
2. Red Panda Conservation Strategy and Action Plan for Bhutan July 2025 – June 2035 (390 downloads )
3. National Zero Poaching Strategy 2025-2029 (717 downloads )
4. Operation Guidelines for Management and Monitoring of High Conservation Value (July 2025) (727 downloads )
5. Guidelines for Natural Capital Accounting in Protected Areas, March 2025 (106 downloads )
6. Modality for allotment of sites and extraction of timber from Phase II Scientific Thinning through private sector - Oct, 2024 (7146 downloads )
7. Timber Export Guideline - October 2024 (5471 downloads )
8. Forest Canopy Cover Assessment Guidelines 2024 (7608 downloads )
9. Action Plan for Forest Resources Management for Three Years Through Thinning August 2023 to August 2026 (2330 downloads )
10. Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Action Plan (2023-2033) (12678 downloads )
11. Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan (2023-2033) (9561 downloads )
12. National Human Wildlife Conflict Management Strategy of Bhutan (2018 to 2028) (9642 downloads )
13. NRPC guidelines (7620 downloads )
14. Guideline for Wildlife Habitat Management (1318 downloads )
15. Guideline for Open Auction of sites for Surface Collection & RDM Dredging for Export, 2021 (15369 downloads )
16. Forest Resource Potential Assessment, 2013 (15323 downloads )
17. Forest Fire Management Strategy of Bhutan, 2013 (15574 downloads )
18. Framework For Management and Marketing of Non-Wood Forest Products (2022) (13064 downloads )
19. National REDD Strategy & Action plan, 2020 (7247 downloads )
20. National Strategy for the Development of Non-Wood Forest Products 2020 (13085 downloads )
21. National Strategy for Community Forestry, 2019 (2131 downloads )
22. National Strategy for Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (15477 downloads )
23. Action Plan for Bhutan's National Forest Monitoring System for REDD+ under the UNFCCC, 2015 (919 downloads )
24. Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (7285 downloads )
25. Community Forestry Field Manual, Third Edition, 2018 (15074 downloads )
26. National Strategy for Community Forestry - The Way Ahead, 2010 (15435 downloads )
27. Cordyceps harvesting guideline, 2018 (15299 downloads )
28. Dendrochronology Manual, 2017 (15471 downloads )
29. Elephant Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, 2018-2028 (897 downloads )
30. Guidelines for Community Forests and NWFP group networks formation, 2018 (15489 downloads )
31. Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluation of Plantation and Forest Nursery, 2019 (15378 downloads )
32. Guideline for Management of Agar-wood Nursery and Plantation in Bhutan, 2020 (15432 downloads )
33. Laboratory manual for Aboveground understory and Soil Organic Carbon Analysis (15429 downloads )
34. Manual for Logging and Timber Harvesting in Community Forests, 2016 (6355 downloads )
35. Guidelines for Monitoring & Evaluation of Community Forestry, 2016 (15468 downloads )
36. Field Manual National Forest Inventory of Bhutan 2020 (14276 downloads )
37. Red Panda Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan (2018-2023) (904 downloads )
38. Revised Norms and Standards for Plantation, 2020 (15669 downloads )
39. Forestry Field Manual for Bhutan - Silviculture and Other Forestry Operations, second edition, 2016 (15489 downloads )
40. Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan, (2018-2023) (15272 downloads )
41. Marketing Guidelines for Wood-based Products from Community Forests, 2017 (3164 downloads )
42. HEC SAFE system Strategy (15426 downloads )
43. WBH Conservation Action Plan, 2022-2031 (15226 downloads )
44. National Forest Inventory Data Management Protocol (14323 downloads )
45. Implementation Modality for NFI of Bhutan, 2021 (14244 downloads )
46. Bhutan NFI Open Foris Collect User Manual (424 downloads )
47. Guideline for Open Auction of Sites for Surface Collection and RBM Dredging for Export, 2021 (14008 downloads )
48. Protected Area Zonation Guidelines of Bhutan, 2020 (12367 downloads )
49. Guidelines for Classifying and Managing Key Biodiversity Areas in Bhutan, 2020 (9910 downloads )

Fishing Technical Guidelines

1. Delineation of Mahseer Water and Trout Water in Bhutan (15322 downloads )
2. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Mahseer water in Bhutan (15505 downloads )
3. Delineation of High-end Recreational Fishing Sites on Trout and Mahseer water in Bhutan (15466 downloads )
4. Guide to Availing Fishing Permits Online (15447 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 (14091 downloads )
2. Allometric-Biomass-Equations-2018 (14393 downloads )
3. Measurement-Reporting-and-Verification-MRV-System-to-support-REDD-Bhutan (13972 downloads )
4. Abies densa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14192 downloads )
5. Conifers_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14039 downloads )
6. Juniperus_recurva_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14107 downloads )
7. Picea spinulosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14159 downloads )
8. Pinus roxburghii_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14169 downloads )
9. Pinus wallichiana__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14074 downloads )
10. Quercus lanata__VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14151 downloads )
11. Tsuga dumosa_VOLUME EQUATION TO ESTIMATE MERCHANTABLE VOLUME (14101 downloads )