《关于建立以国家公园为主体的自然保护地体系指导意见》已经明确了自然保护地体系的骨架,但是这些骨架如何形成有机的系统？在顶层设计中还没有明确表达出来。而关于各种保护地如何形成一个有机体系,在科学上是有答案的,即形成生态网络:各种保护地是生态网络上的重要节点,而溪流、树篱、步道、森林廊道等就是各节点联系的脉络(连通性)。20世纪60年代以来,新兴生态学理论研究的进展推动了自然保护的重心从自然保护地本身转向保护地之间的连通性。欧盟Natura 2000就是全球最大的生态网络操作实例,因此,Natura 2000作为一个宝贵的例子,其形成和运行对其他地区的大规模保护工作有所启迪。在科学理论和实践的观照下,我国自然保护地体系的建构还需要再往前一步,迈向生态网络法。而建构生态网络法并不是大动干戈另起炉灶,而是微调,即在现有的自然保护地框架下纳入生态连通性的规范要求。

The guidelines on the establishment of a natural reserve system with national parks as the main body have clarified the skeleton of the natural reserve system, but how can these skeletons form an organic system? It's not explicitly expressed in the top-level design. As for how to form an organic system of various protected areas, there is a scientific answer, that is, to form an ecological network: various protected areas are important nodes in the ecological network, and streams, hedges, footpaths and forest corridors are the veins (connectivity) of all nodes. Since the 1960s, the development of emerging ecological theories has promoted the focus of nature conservation from the nature reserve itself to the connectivity between protected areas. The European Union's Natura 2000 is the world's largest example of an ecological network in operation, so it is a valuable example of how its formation and operation can help guide large-scale conservation efforts elsewhere. Under the view of scientific theory and practice, the construction of natural reserve system in our country needs to go one step further, towards ecological network method. However, the construction of ecological network law is not to start all over again, but to fine-tune, that is, to incorporate the normative requirements of ecological connectivity within the existing framework of nature reserve.