The snow leopard Panthera uncia, an emblematic species symbolizing the alpine mountain ecosystem’s vitality across Asia, faces global threats like habitat loss, prey depletion, poaching, and conflicts, classifying it as Vulnerable on the IUCN red list. Despite Bhutan’s commendable increase in snow leopard numbers from 96 in 2015 to 134 in 2023, persistent challenges demand..
Bhutan, at the forefront of global conservation efforts, presents a comprehensive and strategic Tiger Action Plan to address the multifaceted challenges confronting its tiger population. The intricate threat landscape, spanning poaching, prey depletion, humantiger conflicts, habitat degradation, diseases, climate change, and inadvertent killings, demands a holistic and integrated approach. The plan, set to unfold over..
The Bhutan Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool Plus (Bhutan METT +) was developed in 2014 and implemented between 2014 and 2016 to assess the management effectiveness of the protected area network of Bhutan. After five years, we started the second assessment in 2021 to track the progress and identify gaps in management effectiveness and has been..
This action plan identified threats such as habitat fragmentation and loss, depletion of food resources, hunting and poaching, diseases, and disturbances on nesting sites impacting the hornbills of Bhutan, with overall threat ranked in Medium category through Miradi Threat Ranking process. If unaddressed, these threats will significantly trigger a decline in hornbill populations in Bhutan…
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) has a wide habitat range spanning over 2.8 million km2 across 12 range countries in south and central Asia. The species is globally threatened, yet there isn’t a robust global population estimate. The difficulty in obtaining a reliable population estimate is attributed to the secretive nature of the species, low..
The report provides a comprehensive assessment of biodiversity in the national biodiversity monitoring grids, revealing significant insights into the diversity and distribution of taxa (bird, fish, flora, herpetofauna, insects, macroinvertebrates, and mammals). Passeriformes dominated bird detections, highlighting a rich avian community, while Cypriniformes, particularly Cyprinidae, were prevalent among fish, emphasizing the importance of preserving aquatic..
Some of the major assumptions of the National Forest Inventory Volume II: State of Forest Carbon Report are: The NFI design has 2,424 Cluster Plot (CP) laid at 4 km x 4 km grid across the country, from which 20 % of the plot are randomly selected as “Carbon plot” for the collection of understorey..
The National Forest Inventory Report Volume I provide estimates of extent of forest area, stem density, basal area, growing stock, diversity, regeneration, forest disturbances, overview of the presence absence of important non-wood forest product species and distribution of the selected wildlife. The estimates are reported at National level, Dzongkhag level, Forest Type level, Elevation range,..
The Asiatic black bear Ursus thibetanus is a globally threatened species experiencing a decline in population due to habitat loss and degradation, poaching and illegal wildlife trade, and humanbear conflict. Bears frequently conflict with people as they deprecate crops and livestock and cause damage to life and property. In Bhutan, locally known as “Dom,” bears..
The NTS Report 2021–2022 provides an update of the status of tigers in our country. The Report is based on extensive data collection using camera traps, field surveys, and data analysis of tiger populations. The key findings of the report are as follows: The tiger population in Bhutan has increased from 103 in 2014–2015 (NTS-2015)..