The Present Situation and Actions for Wildlife Issues in Kyushu and Okinawa Area

Abstract

The title of the student session of Fukuoka congress was "The present situation and actions for Wildlife issues in Kyushu and Okinawa area". The purpose of this session was to enlarge the mind and to raise student's interest in wildlife issues in Kyushu and Okinawa. We invited three lecturers to tell students about their actions. Mr.Takashi Nagamine (Conservation & Animal Welfare Trust) spoke about Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis, and Gallirallus okinawae in Okinawa. Ms.Hiromi Yoshida (Sea Turtle Association of Japan) told us about the sea turtle research which she did while she was a student in Miyazaki. Mr.Kanji Tamai (Hirakawa Zoological Park) lectured about Herpestes javanicus, the alien species in Kagoshima. We learned that the most important thing to solve wildlife issues is to make and keep the connection among people in communities, professional and student who is interested in wildlife. Students should create and continue to strengthen this relationship. This network will develop the wildlife medicine and will solve the wildlife issues in the near future.