| Summary: | This research was designed to, i) determine the communities' perspective on community
forestry from their knowledge, impression and interest, ii) identify the communities'
attitudes toward the forest management agencies, iii) identify the challenges of the
implementation of community forestry, iv) identify the effects of communities' land
ownership, land utilization, house distance to forest and forest products utilization toward
the communities' access rights, forest resources and wildlife abundance, and forestry issues
and, v) determine the extent of communities' employment in forestry sector and interaction
with the forest management agencies. The data were collected using the mixed method
through three instruments namely, self-administered questionnaire, involving 204
community members, an interview with the forest officer and document analysis of 17
documents. The results of communities' perspective are on the average level but
communities did show their interests to be Involved in community forestry and the
communities have indifferent attitudes toward the forest management agencies. The main
challenges of community forestry are the conflict between communities on forest land
ownership and certain parties' objection due to conflicting views and Interest. The
communities' forest dependency has significant effects toward the communities' access
rights, forest resources and wildlife abundance, and forestry issues. Lastly, the extent of
communities' employment In the forestry sector and Interaction with the forest management
agencies are low. Conclusively, the study findings are able to achieve the research
objectives and to reflect the Initial problem statements of this study. The proposed model of
community forestry in Bau has to include five main elements which are the
communities' perspective, attitudes, possible challenges, forest dependency and
participation. It is recommended for future study to use different kind of analysis,
methods and a larger sampling size to maximize the results of that study.
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