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The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical production forests is not just a technical task for forest managers. It requires that biodiversity concerns be addressed in national level planning and policymaking, at the stage of allocating forests to conservation, production and conversion, and during management planning and field implementation.

This paper highlights the regulatory issues and practical challenges related to the development of NTFP enterprises in Nepal. Identifies regulatory challenges that affect the key processes of forest?based enterprise management.

In spite of the widely accepted success of Community Forestry in reviving degraded land, it is still seen as being unable to provide tangible benefits to the poor.

Planted forests constituted only 7 percent of the global forest area, or about 271 million hectares, in the year 2005, but they contributed a higher proportion of overall forest goods and services.

Forest certification is a market-based instrument that aims to encourage sustainable forest management for the multiple values of the forest beyond timber, to include non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and services, social and cultural values and future options.