The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) has released typical cases of procuratorial organs serving the construction of national parks, with a view to guiding procuratorial organs across the country to fully leverage their public interest litigation functions to better serve and support national park construction and promote the high-level protection of the ecological environment.
The typical cases were announced at a seminar held in Xining, the capital of Northwest China's Qinghai province, on June 28, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the release of the overall development plan of national park construction.
Six typical cases were released during the event, including five cases of administrative public interest litigation and one case of civil public interest litigation. These cases involved five national parks in China, namely Sanjiangyuan, Giant Panda, Northeast China Tiger and Leopard, Hainan Tropical Rainforest, and Wuyishan national parks, spanning the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, Jilin, Hainan, Fujian, and Jiangxi.
The cases target a range of protected species, such as snow leopards, Northeast China tigers and leopards, Hainan Eld's deer, as well as plants like Tianquan maple and Wuyishan pine, which play important roles in the ecological environment of national parks.
The methods of public interest protection include supervising administrative authorities through administrative public interest litigation to fulfill their duties in accordance with the law, as well as initiating civil public interest litigation to hold individuals accountable for their illegal actions, demonstrating the multi-perspective and comprehensive attention of procuratorial organs to the protection of national parks.
Xu Xiangchun, head of the SPP's Public Interest Litigation Department, said that the typical cases released demonstrate significant achievements in the restoration and governance of damaged ecological environments.
In fulfilling their duties through public interest litigation in serving national park construction, procuratorial organs not only protect the ecological environment but also prioritize safeguarding the interests of local residents, Xu said.
This approach effectively mobilizes local residents to actively participate in national park construction and ecological protection, reduces the impact of national park construction on the production and livelihoods of local residents, and achieves coordinated development between national park construction and regional economic and social development, he added.
