The Implication of Forest Protection abroad for Wuling Mountain Area

This paper provides an overview of the payment for forest environmental service in Europe, the biodiversity conservation project in Costa Rica, the Maine forest protection project in United States. Moreover, the paper analyzes their successful experiences and characteristics. Combined with the problems of forest protection existing in the Wuling Mountain Area, the paper puts forward some useful suggestions, including the operation of ecology capitalization, forest ecological compensation, the legalization of forest management, diversification of compensation funds, and improvement of the native population quality. Forests provide mankind with irreplaceable resources and environment, thus offering significant environmental, social and economic benefits. With the forest coverage rate around 53%, it is a crucial ecological barrier and water resource conservation area of Yangtze River Basin. However, with the development of society and economy, the serious environmental problems of forest degradation, forest uneven distribution, decreasing ecological function have been emerging. Therefore, it is highly urgent to explore a suitable and efficient forest protection mechanisms. It is of vital significance to learn from the successful experience of foreign forest protection to improve the forest protection regulations in Wuling Mountain Area.