In Bhutan, community forestry began

In Bhutan, community forestry began as an attempt by the government
and aid agencies to provide an alternative way for forest departments
to manage forests, that is, by including the local people
(Gilmour and Fisher, 1991). The development of community forestry
was partly motivated by a desire to allow forest-dependent people to
obtain legitimate access to a major source of their livelihoods as well
as by the recognition that forests could not be properly managed without
some level of active support from local people. Behind this, there
was increasing pressure on forest departments to becomemore efficient
in their use of government-funded resources. The fundamental tenets of