Laya Park Range JDNP GASA

31/12/2024

Wishing everyone Happy New Year 2025

17/12/2024

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

Pelden Drukpa Gayalo!

31/07/2024

Wishing all Happy World Rangers Day to Green warriors!

04/06/2024

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.

04/06/2024

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

02/06/2024

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

06/02/2024

Subsequent notice for timber auction!

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

11/01/2024

Notice for open auction.

Open Auction Notice for Conifer Timber

31/12/2023

Happy new year 2024.

03/08/2023

26/07/2023

July is the most busiest month for Laya Range with several unplanned & regular activities that keeps staff occupied. The unplanned activities includes Assessment of dead dying trees, Himalayan monal threat assessment & Musk Deer antipoaching patrolling.

1. Assessment of threat to Himalayan monal:- Himalayan Monal is a vulnerable species. It is hunted for food, sport and its beautiful feathers. Himalayan Monal is threatened with hunting and population numbers are decreasing & putting them at risk of extinction. Therefore 10 days patrolling was conducted in JDNP to assess & protect this species in their habitat to ensure their survival.

2. Dead dying trees assessment:- With aim of mantaining healthy forest & making efficient use of forest resources, a through assessment of dead dying trees was done in Laya Range as per order from park management.

3. Musk Deer Antipoaching patrolling:- The team from Thimphu accompanied by 3 forestry officials from JDNP proceeded to Tshaijathang for fliming of Bhutan Takin in it's summer habitat. During the time of their visit to different location for fliming around Tsharijathang, the team spotted many fresh traps set along ridges & informed JDNP management. CFO ordered 3 ROs LaPRO, LiPRO & GPRO to conduct a Joint patrolling and scan all nearby area. Therefore staff from 3 ranges proceeded to scan all nearby area & destroyed 7 active traps from Ridrupzhi juk under Gasa Range & 16 active traps from Merana under Lingzhi Range.

In addition to the unplanned activities, the Laya Range also carries out regular activities that includes providing public services and day-and-night patrolling to curb illegal NWFP collectors.

With an area of 904 sqkm & being the most populated(1094) range among 6 ranges as per socio-economic survey report of JDNP 2021 however the range office has only 5 techinical staff & 1 ex-army personnel, resulting in 5 : 218 public to staff ratio.

07/07/2023

Welcome back. Takin monitoring in summer habitat.

Date:07/07/2023
Count 13.

04/07/2023

One Year SMART Infographic Result of Laya Range.

13/05/2023

Mass Cleaning 13/05/2023

In gratitude for the permission to collect cordyceps from the Golden Throne to the highlanders yearly, the Laya community conducts a mass cleaning before leaving to collect Himalayan Vi**ra. This year, Park has initiated mass cleaning campaign with support from Laya Geog Administration, the program was aside from monthly waste collection in respective village on every 02nd and 09th. One member from each house hold were made compulsory to involve in cleaning campaign and those who were absent should pay Nu.2000(two thousand)as penalty to gewog. The program was joined by Honourable Member of Parliament Khatoed Laya, Desuups, Geog Livestock and Agriculture Extension, GAO, Forestry Staff, RBA, and members of the Local Government (Gup, Mangmi, Tshogpas).

1/ Laya-Yongzophu,
2/ Laptsakha-Dungonpa, and
3/ Resu Gate-Tongchudra.

As an enforcer we would like to remind local residents and visitors to take care of your waste while travelling. Littering and disposing of waste in non-designated areas is strictly prohibited, and violators will be liable for fines enforced under waste management regulations. Let us maintain a clean environment and uphold our responsibility to keep our community safe and healthy. Until now we have created enough campaign and awareness program,henceforth relevant official will deal with existing rules, if people were found littering. Zero Waste Bhutan Department of Forests and Park Services Jigme Dorji National Park Department of Tourism, Bhutan Dzongkhag Gasa Laya Gewog Administration.

11/05/2023

This bird ( Whimbrel ) was rescued by Aum Zangmo from Large-billed crow and currently it's under our care.

06/04/2023

བཀོ་མི་གི་བཀོ་འདི་རང་སྡོད་པ་ཅིན།
འཐུ་མི་གི་དེམ་ཅིག་འཐུ་སྡོད་ནི་སྨོ།
རང་གི་ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་འདི་རང་གི་རང་བདག་འཛིན་མཛད་གནང་།

11/03/2023

At the same time we request every individual to manage your waste & keep this holy site clean. Welcome back to where you belong.

25/11/2022

As a part of range activities under Division output: Forestry & wildlife offence/conflicts reduce, LaPRO successfully concluded second round of week long(10 days) Planned SMART Patrolling scanning all illegal prone & suspected areas. We plan & set spaital target as a reference to patrol and cover area intensively not simply to hit the target.