Laws And Regulations Study Of Hainan Mangrove Protection

Mangrove is one of those ecosystems who enjoy highest primary productivity and biological diversity. Mangrove values extremely high in ecological, economic and social aspects. It is certain that Hainan mangrove deserves more attention and protection due to its special advantages. However, the fact is that Hainan mangrove has been facing serious survival crisis to this day. Although current legislation on protection of mangrove forest of Hainan is numerous, the lack of legislation protection reveals in incoordination between laws and regulations, lack of rules on mangrove forest ownership, imperfection of mangrove restoration, unpractical of current environmental impact assessment system, faultiness of mangrove travel-ecosystem protection and participation of interest mechanism, no specific legislation for ecosystem compensation and the too general rules of public participation. Unsound legal institution is one of the main reasons why mangrove forest of Hainan nowadays enjoys worse living conditions.This article concludes the lack of legal protection of mangrove forest of Hainan through specific analysis on current living crises of Hainan mangrove forest with the existed laws and regulations in this related area. Moreover, this article gives suggestions on perfection of wetland protection legislation, drafting detailed regulations for mangrove forest ownership, perfection of mangrove restoration protection measure, complete the environmental assessment mechanism based on protection needs, improvement of the mangrove forest travel-ecosystem protection and local residents protection mechanism, improvement of ecosystem compensation and specify the public participation of mangrove forest protection in subject, process and guarantee and other aspects related.