Buthan's National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan

This document outlines the national biodiversity strategies and action plan that Bhutan has formulated. According to the country's developmental philosophy dubbed Gross National Happiness, environmental conservation is one of the four pillars of this philosophy, ensuring that development is never achieved at the cost of the environment. This has ensured that Bhutan has emerged in the 21st century with its biodiversity largely intact in comparison to the global trends of unprecedented loss of biodiversity in the past fifty years.