This article presents the status of Bangladesh forestry explaining the needs of forest products and the efficiency of forest policy and management practices, and relates sustainability with scarcity situations. The status of forestland use was explained by compartmentalization of indicators into resource factors and social factors. Three indicator groups were used to present the resource and social factors of Bangladesh forestry. The findings suggest that forest sustainability depends not only on resource criteria but also on social criteria. The study also explores how resource and social factors need to be explored for sustainable
practices.