Wanning's long coastline is surrounded by a number of unmanned islands such as Dazhou Island, Jiajing Island, Zhouzai Island, Sugarcane Island and Bai'an Island, which have more species of hainan-endemic animals and plants and national or provincial protected animals and plants, which have high island ecological value. However, the island ecosystem is very fragile, once destroyed will be difficult to restore, in order to protect the marine ecological environment, in recent years, the relevant management departments of Wanning to increase the crackdown on illegal island tourism activities, so that the dazhou Island and other unmanned islands near the sea area of the human activities reduced, indiscriminate mining of bird's nest, deforestation and other serious damage to ecological resources and swiftlet habitat behavior has been stopped, island and marine ecological environment has been restored to a certain extent.
Dazhou Island belongs to the National Marine Ecological Nature Reserve, located in the eastern coast of Hainan Island, in the territory of Wanning City, Dazhou Island and its surrounding 70 square kilometers belong to the scope of Dazhou Island National Marine Nature Reserve, the main object of protection is swiftlet and island marine ecosystem, coral reef and rich biological resources in the protection area, Dazhou Island Conservation Area is an important area for biodiversity conservation. According to relevant laws and regulations, any unit or individual is prohibited from entering Dazhou Island without permission to build production and living facilities and carry out tourism activities, and violators will be dealt with according to law. The Wanning Municipal Bureau of Tourism and Culture calls on tourism-related business entities and the general public and tourists to love the marine environment, not to violate the law and false propaganda, not to enter the protected area in violation of the law to carry out illegal tourism activities, and to be law-abiding business enterprises and citizens.
The Wanning Municipal Bureau of Tourism and Culture coordinated with the Tourism and Environmental Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Municipal Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau and other relevant departments to conduct joint law enforcement inspections of illegal tourism at sea
According to the "Notice of the Wanning Municipal People's Government on Prohibiting Illegal Tourism on Landing on Non-Resident Islands", it is forbidden for any ship to illegally land on Dazhou Island, Chau Tsai Island, Sugarcane Island, Bai'an Island and other islands without approval; any person is prohibited from carrying out illegal tourism activities such as diving, fishing, swimming, camping and other illegal tourism activities on Andu Island, Chau Tsai Island, SugarCane Island, Bai'an Island and other islands and surrounding waters without approval; for those who violate the notice, they will be fined, confiscated vessels and administrative detention in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, constituting a crime , will be transferred to the judicial authorities for criminal prosecution.
The inner bay of Wanning Dazhou Island. Photo by Yuan Chen