Category: Publications

Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Bhutan 2024-2033

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..

Tiger Action Plan for Bhutan 2024-2033

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..

Conservation Action Plan for Hornbills of Bhutan 2023-2033

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…

National Snow Leopard Survey Report 2023

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..

Status of biodiversity in Bhutan

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..

National Forest Inventory Volume II

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..

National Forest Inventory Volume I

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,..

Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Plan 2023-2033

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..

National Tiger Survey Report 2022

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)..