The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund
Introduction to Grant Projects
INDEX="203"
NAME="Using polluted regions in Africa as a model for understanding what species of wild animals and animals bred for meat are vunerable to chemical pollution - an environmental toxicological approach to tackling ecosystem conservation and food security problems"
TYPE="研究助成,"
YEAR="2012年度,"
AREA="中東・アフリカ,"
KIND="大学,"
ORG="Hokkaido University Graduate School of Veterinary Medecine Shota Nakayama, Associate Professor"
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Veterinary Medecine Shota Nakayama, Associate Professor
Using polluted regions in Africa as a model for understanding what species of wild animals and animals bred for meat are vunerable to chemical pollution - an environmental toxicological approach to tackling ecosystem conservation and food security problems
Research grant
- Project Description
Currently, the extinction of wild animals and food shortages are urgent global issues. This research aims to 1) conserve biodiversity and ecosystems including wild animal species, and 2) ensure food security in the form of important food animals. It will use regions in Africa where pollution levels are already advanced to research the accumulating properties of pollution in wild and food animals and the biological defense mechanisms of different species, and identify wild animal species that are vunerable to chemical pollution and food animal species that are effective at excreting contaminated material.
- Grant year
- FY2012 Research Grants
- Grant term
- 2 years
April 2013 - March 2015
- Grant amount
- 5,520,000 yen
- Activity region
- Zambia, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Ghana
Overview of the Organization
- Representative
- Shota Nakayama, Associate Professor
- Profile
- Specialist field
Veterinary environmental toxicology
Affiliated academic societies
The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science, the Japan Society for Environmental Chemistry, the Japanese Society of Toxicology
Background
April 2010 - March 2012 DC researcher for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
March 2012 Receives doctorate in veterinary medecine from Hokkaido University
April 2012 - October 2012 PD special researcher for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
October 2012 - present Associate professor at Hokkaido University Graduate School of Veterinary Medecine - WEB site
- http://www.vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp/
- Research record Involved in sampling internal organs of chickens, an important food source, in South Africa from April 12-23, 2013. Has been analysing isotope ratios and the accumulating properties of heavy metals and agrochemicals such as DDT in both wild and food animals (hippos, buffalo, cows, goats, sheep, camels, chickens, and wild birds such as pelicans) in Zambia, Ghana, South Africa, and Ethiopia since May 2013. Carried out sampling focused on livestock in Nigeria in August 2013 (funded seperately). Has also carried out experiments on cloning and expression of CYP2C and CYP3A molecular species in some wild bird species and horses, an important food animal.