The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund
Introduction to Grant Projects
Everlasting Nature of Asia (NPO)
Establishing a long-term conservation framework for co-existing with green sea turtles and their breeding grounds on the Ogasawara Islands
Activity grant
- Project Description
As part of efforts towards appropriate resource management regarding the green sea turtles that visit the Ogasawara Islands, this project conducts ongoing monitoring activities, collects information on the turtles that come ashore, and shares this with the local islanders. It also endeavours to carry out academic and promotional activities to cultivate the next-generation of personnel. Furthermore, it engages in communicating a diverse range of information in order to broadly publicise activities being carried out by Ogasawara islanders. Through these mutual efforts, it is establishing a long-term conservation framework on the islands for co-existing with green sea turtles and their breeding grounds.
- Fields
- Ecosystems and the Symbiotic Society
- Grant year
- FY2014 Activity Grants
- Grant term
- 3 years
October 2014 - September 2017
- Grant amount
- 5,500,000 yen
- Activity region
- Chichijima, Hahajima, and Mukojima, Ogasawara Islands, Japan
Overview of the Organization
- Representative
- Hiroyuki Suganuma, Chairman
- Establishment
- 1999
- Establishment purpose
- Everlasting Nature of Asia was established with the aim of contributing to the conservation of marine environments by conducting investigative research and conservation activities centered on marine animals, and carrying out educational and developmental conservation initiatives in partnership with international researchers and institutions. It is also cooperating with local people to develop new locally-led initiatives for collecting field data.
- Main areas of activity
- Kanto region, Miyagi Prefecture, East Japan (including Hokkaido), the Ogasawara Islands in Japan, the Java Sea in western Indonesia, and West Papua Province, Indonesia
- Staff
- 8 full-time staff members, 11 part-time staff members, 11 full members
- Annual operating budget
- 50.44 million yen in 2012, 52.06 million yen in 2013, 50.41 million yen in 2014
- WEB site
- http://www.elna.or.jp
- Recent activities
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- Investigating individual green sea turtle landings and radioactivity levels in the Kanto region
- Investigating individual green sea turtle landings and radioactivity levels in Miyagi Prefecture
- Investigating individual green sea turtle landings in East Japan (including Hokkaido)
- Green sea turtle and hawksbill sea turtle conservation activities in Indonesia
- Presenting at international symposiums on sea turtles
- Presenting at sea turtle conferences in Japan
- Educational and awareness raising activities
- Research and conservation activities focused on sea turtles in the Ogasawara Islands
- Ecology research into humpback whales in the Ogasawara Islands
- Ecology research into coral in the Ogasawara Islands