The current penal code of our country puts environmental crime in chapter 6———hindrance social management order crime; under this legislation system，legislators focus more on social management and do not protect the ecological interests in legal considerations． Take environmental ethics and environmental criminal law relationship of interests as the logical approach，ecological interests being the object of criminal law protection conforms to the consistence between logic and purpose and it also has cultural connectivity and conceptual inheritance． It is an important embodiment of the transformation from anthropocentrism view to the human-oriented ecology，as well as the passing on of China＇s ancient sustainable development concepts such as“man is an integral part of nature”“all living things are equal”and so on． With ecological interests as the protection object of environmental criminal law， it corresponds to the requirement of ecological civilization construction under the concept of sustainable development，and it is conducive to give full play to the function of criminal law of the protection of legal interest and to maintain the operation of the ecological environment．