Laya Park Range JDNP GASA

As we welcome the New Year, wishing everyone good health, peace, and happiness. May this year bring new hope, new opportunities, and strength to overcome every challenges. Happy New Year!

Ohiocordycep sinensis is a major source of income for highlander communities. Sustainable harvesting of O. sinensis is crucial for ensuring the long-term availability of this valuable resource, which has significant economic and medicinal importance. The increasing demand and high market value have led to unsustainable collection practices, threatening both the species and the livelihoods of local communities. Implementing sustainable harvesting strategies is essential to balance economic needs with ecological preservation. To this end the Government has adopted various measures to ensure its sustainability, including controlling the numbers of permit issuance to 3 heads per household, establishing an end date for the collection season(one month) and educating collectors about the fungus's life cycle to promote sustainability.

©️Pictures from Collection monitoring-LaPRO

“The mountains are calling, and I must go”

འབྲུག་མི་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་སྐྱབས་མགོན་དུ་འཁྲུངས་ནས་དགུང་ལོ་༤༥་བཞེས་པའི་ བསྐལ་བཟང་གི་ཉིནམ་ལུ་ མི་དབང་མཆོག་སྐུ་ཚེ་ཞབས་པད་བརྟན་ཅིང་མཛད་པ་འཕྲིན་ལས་དར་ཞིང་རྒྱས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཞུ།

Wishing everyone Happy New Year 2025

Happy 117th National Day. May peace and prosperity continue under the dynamic leadership of our wangchuck dynasty.

Pelden Drukpa Gayalo!

Wishing all Happy World Rangers Day to Green warriors!

As the lush green alpine forest welcomes the arrival of the National Animal, the Takin (Buborcas taxicolar wheiti) also known as Bhutan takin to their summer habitat after spending almost ten months in their winter habitat. The Takin is a seasonal migratory animal, they migrate to higher regions in early summer to avoid blood-sucking parasites, and they migrate to lower valleys in early autumn to avoid the cold, harsh winter season & to find the greener pasture. At this time of year, we can observe their presence in the summer habitat. The Animal is highly protected in Bhutan and it has been listed in Schedule I of FNCA 2023 and vulnerable in IUCN red list. The Offence related to takin is felony of third degree.

Wishing 34th Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen, We offer our solemn prayers for Her Majesty’s good health, long life & happiness.

June 2nd highlights.
To honor the Coronation day of His majesty the fourth king, Range office in colloboration with LMSS observed the social Forestry Day in Laya Middle Secoundary School. We were thrilled to partake in an auspicious event to promote environment conservation.

Pc@LMSS

Subsequent notice for timber auction!

Re-auction of MC and broadleaved timber along Laya Road!!!