Abstract:
The practice of Indigenous Knowledge in forest management is vital to sustain for forest
management. The main purpose of this study is to investigate indigenous knowledge practice in
forest management in Nadhi Gibe woreda and the major challenges hampering the indigenous
knowledge practice in forest management in the study area. To achieve this, the study employed
a cross-sectional design through qualitative and quantitative research approaches to collect
relevant information and data. Data was obtained through the survey, FGD, in-depth interviews,
key informants, and field observation based on the purposive sampling technique to get genuine
and reliable information from local elders, religious leader‟s .woreda environmental forest
protection and climate change authority, local farmers, forest and wildlife enterprise and kebele
administration. The data generated was analyzed by using quantitative and qualitative techniques
such as summarize, categorization, and thematic. Finding Show that awareness on forest
management comes from the communities perception on forest utilization ,care and respect for
the existing indigenous knowledge practices which have great contribution for the forest
management, local administration were not caring, respect, appreciate and sustaining an
indigenous knowledge practices im forest management is well understood in traditional way
due to failure of local administration, failure of youngsters and increase of population size. It is
recommended that the Indigenous knowledge practice and appropriate policy should be
commensurate with forest management
