The Practice and Thinking about Sustainable Collective Forest Protection in Xiong'er Village,Lixian County

Xiong'er Village is a typical representative of more than 50 high mountain villagers in GanBao Town,Li County,Aba Prefecture.It has a fragile ecological system and is lack of water,but the villagers are still unaware of the decisive influence of ecological environment to their survival.In 2011,Xiong'er Village set up the board of directors and board of supervisors,elected the patrol team to carry out protection.But for the execution in community,protection action lacked pertinence; the villagers didn't understand the collective forest protection,and were lack of collective action.Shanshui conservation center tried to help Xiong'er village to improve the protect system from 2014,including making a protection planning,and took a part of money from the public welfare forest compensation as public funds to support the patrol team wages.The community fund was established to support the development of collective eco-friendly industry,aiming to help villagers to improve the income and to give back part of the profit to the community fund to support community protection.It assisted the community in forming management mechanism,promoting community to balance the protection and development and thus making the protection sustainable.