Almost all countries have imposed large-scale mobility restrictions (or lockdown) to stop the spreading of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The mobility restriction has disrupted all types of business; causing a devastating impact on countries' economies; and pushing millions of people into extreme poverty. Scientists have been assessing the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on various fronts but there is limited scholarship in the forestry sector. We navigated the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the forestry sector by taking Gandaki Province (21,974 km²) of Nepal as a case. Employing semi-structured interviews (n = 62) with all ten stakeholder groups, literature review and media analysis, our study revealed that the COVID-19 lockdown suspended all types of forestry and ecotourism businesses; obstructed research and monitoring activities; halted capacity development and extension services; impacted forest development work; and increased incidences of illegal logging and poaching and trafficking of wildlife. Because of the complete shutdown of businesses, the forestry sector of Gandaki province lost 9.6 million USD and 3.2 million man-days of employment during the lockdown period. The economic cost of the lockdown was 1.73 million USD for NTFPs traders, 1.26 million USD for ecotourism entrepreneurs, 0.55 million USD for the community forest user groups and 0.24 million USD for the smallholder or private forest owner. We suggested four post-COVID recovery pathways, including sustainable forest management, nature-based tourism, improvement of forest products value chain and community-based natural resource management to bounce back from the loss. As the current pandemic is most likely to derail the Sustainable Development Pathways of several countries, including Nepal and necessitates the need for an immediate response, the finding and recommendation of our study may inform decision-makers to reimage post-pandemic recovery and leverage sustainable development.

几乎所有国家都实施了大规模的流动限制（或封锁），以阻止新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）的传播。流动性限制扰乱了所有类型的业务；对各国经济造成毁灭性影响；并使数百万人陷入极端贫困。科学家们一直在评估 COVID-19 封锁对各个方面的影响，但林业部门的学术研究有限。我们以尼泊尔甘达基省（21,974^平方公里）为例，探讨了 COVID-19 封锁对林业部门的影响。通过对所有 10 个利益相关者群体进行半结构化访谈（ n = 62）、文献综述和媒体分析，我们的研究表明，COVID-19 封锁暂停了所有类型的林业和生态旅游业务；研究和监测活动受阻；停止能力开发和推广服务；受影响的森林开发工作；非法采伐、偷猎和贩运野生动物的事件有所增加。由于企业全面停工，甘达基省林业部门在封锁期间损失了 960 万美元和 320 万个工作日。封锁的经济成本为非森林林产品贸易商的 173 万美元、生态旅游企业家的 126 万美元、社区森林用户群体的 55 万美元、小农或私人森林所有者的 24 万美元。我们提出了四种后疫情恢复途径，包括可持续森林管理、基于自然的旅游业、改善林产品价值链和基于社区的自然资源管理，以从损失中恢复过来。 由于当前的大流行最有可能使包括尼泊尔在内的几个国家的可持续发展道路脱轨，并需要立即采取应对措施，因此我们的研究结果和建议可能会为决策者提供信息，以重新规划大流行后的复苏并利用可持续发展。