Experience of learning online course on community forestry with RECOFTC

For a very long time, I was locked inside my home due to an unprecedented lockdown and I was frequently wondering for something productive task, which might assist me in keeping busy. Unexpectedly, I got encountered a post on Facebook about the free online course that was going to be taken by RECOFTC. When I saw it, instantly, I had made the mind that, I will definitely going to participate in this course. Now, I am happily sharing my experience of successful involvement in an online course and through which I got an opportunity to enrich my knowledge in community forestry. 

I am a forestry graduate student and I am looking vehemently at my carrier in the field of forestry. For this simple reason, this course has been a great boon for me. Besides, I am really interested in social science, particularly, how people in the community operate rights in maximizing benefits from the forests. Additionally, I have read, how magically, the community forest of Nepal has changed the fate of millions of creatures and the lives of people depending upon the forest resources. This dramatic transformation, the country has achieved through community foresty has often intrigued me to delve inside it. 

So far, during these few weeks, I have learned so many things about community forestry. Before, I was completely naive about, how community forestry is practiced in other Asian countries. Indeed, it somehow helps me to get the general idea of different modalities of community forestry, their tenure rights, kinds of rights devolved to the local people and so many things associated with community forestry. Besides, I came to know about, problems and challenges faced by community forestry across the South-Asian region. However, I see multiple advantages of community forestry too, ranging from improvement of livelihood of people to imperative contribution in curbing green-house gaseous. Furthermore, I learn about various kinds of principles practiced in community forestry. So, the last few days have been extremely worthful for me.

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