Community Economy And Management Strategy Of Guanyinshan Mountain Nature Reserve In Shaanxi Province

Guanyinshan Mountain Nature Reserve is situated in the Fopin County of South of Qinling Mountain, covering 13534 hm~2 and being administered by Forestry Department of Shaanxi Province and Forest Resource Management Administration of Shaanxi Province. There are 78 staffs in the administration, setting up Administrative Office, Conservation Units, Science and Education Units, Political Units, Police Units (3 Conservation Stations, 3 Police Stations and 1 Sentry). The management system is divided into three levels (bureau-level, station-level, point-level).The surrounding community includes Donghe Village in Changjiaba County, Foping State Nature Reserve, Zhouzhi State Nature Reserve, Longcaoping Forestry Bureau, Xiaonanping Village, and Longcaoping Village. In fact, Foping Nature Reserve and Zhouzhi Nature Reserve are promoting the external management of Guanyinshan Mountain Nature Reserve. But there are some disadvantaged factors, including the poor productive condition, the lower human resource level, the sparse natural and economic resource (except forest resource), the leading income resource mainly from agriculture and planting industry, backward management method, undeveloped new and effective economic growth points. All the factors will make possible threaten to the management and development of Guanyinshan Mountain Nature Reserve.The nature reserve is facing the challenge as follows: unlawful felling, illegal hunting, and unlawful picking; the weak mind of protection; the human destruction; the unreasonable exploitation; the severe field burning and land abandonment; the external threaten for example the censing on sacrificial day; un-recovered degenerate ecological environment and wildlife habit; the invasion of exotic tree species to destroy the habit of panda. Meanwhile the basic information about local plant resource is insufficient, lack of related graphs, data, and tables; the infrastructure and equipment of working, protecting, propagandizing is lagging; the technical worker is short of the understanding of professional knowledge and policy, and the quality of general staff is not sound; the system of organization should be improved, and the choice of some protection sites should be more scientific and reasonable.