Community forestry (CF)

• Community forestry defined by forestry act (1993) is a ‘national forest handed over to a user’s group under specified rules and regulation for its development, conservation and utilization for collective benefits’.
• In CF program, the management responsibility of forest is transferred to the local people for sustainable use of forest resources which aims to overcome ecological and resources crisis.

Sustainable management of NTFP

• To achieve a balance between conservation and sustainable us e of NTFRs, and animals hunted for bush meat, there is a need to consolidated area networks establish and maintain corridors
• Ecosystem level planning and the management of harvested or hunted populations must take place through a process of consultation, which take relevant scientific, local indigenous knowledge into account.
• Land-use planning and setting of infrastructure (roads, and new settlement) both need to take protected areas, their adjacent conservancies of co-management areas and the requirements for maintaining viable populations valued, but vulnerable species taken into account.
• Sustainable levels of harvest of popular, less resilient plant and animal species need to be established and monitored as part of an adaptive management process with partnership of related stakeholders
• Appropriate and economically viable monitoring systems should be developed and established at the landscape level (remote sensing, aerial photograph analysis) and local level (indicator species)
• Integrated NTFR uses into forest inventory and management
• Conservation through cultivation or farming of wildlife which is economically viable and on a sufficient scale to take the pressure of wild stock (insitu conservation or farm condition)
• Ex-situ conservation needs to be implemented for some high value, high vulnerable species