To the question of the legal status and peculiarities of environmental regulation of spawning forests: a comparison of Russian and international experience
The article discusses the current Russian and foreign practice of allocating coastal spawning belts of forests as a separate specific category of protected natural territories in the General context of creating water protection and fish protection zones; discusses the role of coastal biocenoses in the conservation of aquatic biological resources and providing ecosystem services; it is pointed out that there is a need to ensure more precise legal regulation of the types and directions of nature use allowed within the limits of non-protected forest strips, which is necessary to ensure the achievement of national goals under SDG 15 (Conservation of terrestrial ecosystems).