Forest are the most important resources to our ecosystem. The sustainability and conservation of forest determines a huge deal of countries economy. Forest has a direct relation with the farm household, livestock, economy of farmer, industrial input, etc. A slight imbalance in forest ecosystem has proved to the cause of many disastrous   At present most of our forest resources are being declined, either due to man or natural causes. Deforestation is increasing at such a high rate that desertification may be the only future, we will ever have. Realizing all of this many nations have done a great deal in increasing their forest area and conserving the existing one. Many different measures have already been practically applied but only few have seen to be long lasting. In this scenario Nepal has developed and proved and excellent way of increasing its forest area, that is worthy of being proud about.

During 1990 the rate of deforestation in Nepal was 1.7% per year and the forest cover decreased to about 30%. The foremost cause of forest decline was population growth, forest fire, increasing clearing for urbanization and industrialization and many more. A  joint five-year survey conducted by the Department of Forest Research and Survey and the National Forest Products Survey Project in between 2000 to 2016A.D , shows that of the total 147,181 square kilometres area of Nepal, forest area makes up 44.74 percent. Of it, 40.36 percent is covered by forest and remaining 4.38 percent is scrubland.  So what was the major cause of increase in the forest area?. And most of the researchers have proved that the major cause of this miracle is the introduction of " Community Forest Group".

Community Forest Group is a renowned participatory  forest management approach being adopted in Nepal. As of 2011 about 2.1 million household i.e. 40% of the country population are managing 27.4% of country total area i.e. 1.6 million ha of the country's national forest  through 17,645 Community Forest User Group(CFUG).  This approach has included many families in the conservation as well as utilization of the national forest. Another popular approach in Nepal that has proved to be beneficial is Leasehold Forestry that protects 38778 ha of national forest with 6712 leasehold forest group. It simply gives national forest to public or private groups on lease for a certain period of time with the only requirement that they need to conserve and protect it. 

So, in my opinion Nepal has been doing in managing and protecting it forest through means of collaborative conservation. And I think that similar approach can be practiced by others too.