Administrative Law Research On Conservation Steward Program In China

Conservation Steward Program is a institution that isolates the conservation right fromthe ownership of the protected area and the right of management, through contracts totransfer the conservation right to the party who promised to conserve the area, thesepromised protectors will implement the concrete protection.Compared with the traditionalenvironmental conservation model that dominated by the government, this conservationmodel has many characteristics in participants,permissions of the conservator, the contentof the contract and the agreement mechanism. As a new-type administrative action, theproperty of Conservation Steward Program should be administrative franchise.Conservation Steward Program is a real community co-management which was broughtinto our country when the traditional nature protected area management model got intotrouble by Conservation International.Now,it is operated in Sichuan,Qinghai,Gansu andother provinces as project spots,mainly have “Community implement-subsidize”and”social organization transit” two operation modes,they both are effective and havesome demonstration effects. Analyse the practice of Conservation Steward Program in ourcountry from administrative law view, we can find that it lacks the support of law andmainly is a exploration in practice.Conservation Steward Program has multi-modeldevelopment,effectiveness,build protection capacity and effectiveness security these fourproblems.We should combine the government regulation theory with Conservation StewardProgram’s property to solve these problems,which means we should select appropriateregulation means for each problem and establish a effective,transparent, competitive andlong-developed process.