At least Provide Indiscriminate Increased income Development of sustainable Operation stage Local Gewog Forestry 100,000 supplementary unsustainable harvesting Disruption of community, Extension Agent, harvesting management plan hectares of income from of cordyceps and other community relationship Gewog Research based on scientific information, forest lands community-based medicinal species, within different gewogs development and Development under ecotourism degradation and use of fragile as a result of unclear Park Office Centers (RDCs), implementation of field friendly sustainable of Non Timber alpine ecosystem, and gewog boundaries Dzongkhag Forestry policy and regulation, management Forest Products destruction of alpine Out migration of people Officer, Social enforcing people to use (reduced (NTFPs) with slow value growing alpine from community due to Forestry Division, alternative energy sources such pressures) and addition vegetation for fuelwood increased income as solar and kerosene by Territorial Forestry providing Increased visitation Improved incomes to Division, Policy cordyceps collectors supplementary beyond the carrying communities and Planning Immediate boundary income from capacity of the PA and Physical impacts caused Division (MoAF), demarcation carried out and ecotourism putting pressure on by tourism-related land Land Commission accordingly informing the and use of animal habits and clearing and Secretariat, gewog administration and local NTFPs behaviors construction, continuing Dzongkhag Land community Improper siting can lead tourist activities and Record Officer, - Improve and develop basic to land degradation and long-term changes in Dzongkhag Yargay amenities in the villages to loss of wildlife habitats local economies and Tsogdu (DYT) retain local rural communities and deterioration of ecologies scenery Development of tourism facilities such as accommodation, water supplies, restaurants and recreation facilities can involve sand mining, soil erosion and extensive paving Habitat degradation with air and pollution due to vehicles, solid waste and littering, trampling, tourism leisure activities, etc.
At least 100,000 hectares of forest lands under sustainable management (reduced pressures) and providing supplementary income from ecotourism and use of NTFPs Provide supplementary income from community-based ecotourism and use of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) with value addition Indiscriminate unsustainable harvesting of cordyceps and other medicinal species, degradation of fragile alpine ecosystem, and destruction of alpine slow growing alpine vegetation for fuelwood Increased visitation beyond the carrying capacity of the PA and putting pressure on animal habits and behaviors Improper siting can lead to land degradation and loss of wildlife habitats and deterioration of scenery Development of tourism facilities such as accommodation, water supplies, restaurants and recreation facilities can involve sand mining, soil erosion and extensive paving Habitat degradation with air and pollution due to vehicles, solid waste and littering, trampling, tourism leisure activities, etc. Increased income Disruption of community relationship within different gewogs as a result of unclear gewog boundaries Out migration of people from community due to increased income Improved incomes to communities Physical impacts caused by tourism-related land clearing and construction, continuing tourist activities and long-term changes in local economies and ecologies Development of sustainable harvesting management plan based on scientific information, development and implementation of field friendly policy and regulation, enforcing people to use alternative energy sources such as solar and kerosene by cordyceps collectors Immediate boundary demarcation carried out and accordingly informing the gewog administration and local community - Improve and develop basic amenities in the villages to retain local rural communities Operation stage Local community, Gewog Park Office Gewog Forestry Extension Agent, Research Development Centers (RDCs), Dzongkhag Forestry Officer, Social Forestry Division, Territorial Forestry Division, Policy and Planning Division (MoAF), Land Commission Secretariat, Dzongkhag Land Record Officer, Dzongkhag Yargay Tsogdu (DYT)
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