Environmental research

No cash financing in this Project. Gyelwa Ringa forest and environment management committee is a community organization formed by the villages from the all works of life . This organization has also initiated community forest management programmes to gain ownership of managing surrounding forest and prevent outsides illegal harvesting of timber and fuel wood. the Organization aims to male a model village in the Dzongkhag by taking second initiatives in preservation and protecting the critical watershed that provides safe, clean and perennial water supply for irrigating 300 acres of wetland and value adding to Chukha Hydro Power Generation. The current pattern of firewood consumption in not only threatening our fragile environment but will be costly affairs to manage the monastic school due to the cost escalation of firewood and transportation. This alarming trend of firewood consumption surely poses challenges in conserving our environment thus staking one of the four pillars of GNH and the goal of conserving the 60% forest coverage in Bhutan.

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