Study On Sustainable Management Of Tropical Forests In Hainan Island, China

Hainan Island is one of the major tropical areas in China, where large area of primitive tropical forests occur, which are of high value in scientific, environmental and economic aspects, and a resource treasury for China and the world. As the most south island of China, Hainan is situated in the Southeast Asia economic circle. Obviously, it has the natural and economic advantages to develop tropical forest resources. Tropical forestry in Hainan is not only an industry, but also exerts manifold ecological function and benefit, and play an important role in serving and promoting economic and social development of Hainan Province. Therefore, it is very important for construction of the ecological province of Hainan to explore methods and approaches in sustainable management of tropical forest resources.This paper analyses the present situation of the tropical forest resources on the basis of the forest resources inventory in Hainan; evaluates in a systematic manner the function and value of the tropical forest and capacity of Hainan in sustainable management of tropical forest for the first time; explores the management regionalization of tropical forest in Hainan and approaches in sustainable management of tropical forest in terms of the ecological welfare forest and commodity forest for the first time, and proposes a whole set of management model and the direction of tropical forest development in the next 15 years. The research is as follows:1. The development and the status quo of the tropical forest resources in Hainan was analyzed on the basis of the existing statistical data of tropical forest resources with focus on description of the dynamic change and status quo of the forest resources after the establishment of new China. The result indicated that the tropical forest resources achieved "double increases" in stock volume and area with high utilization rate of the...