Community Outreach
Ogasawara Ecotourism Committee
Ogasawara Village Office 100-2101 Aza Nishimachi, Chichijima, Ogasawara-mura, Tokyo TEL: 04998-2-3111 http://en.vill.ogasawara.tokyo.jp/ecotourism_2/ The Ogasawara Ecotourism Committee is a committee within Ogasawara Village’s government to oversee their ecotourism industry and maintain relations and communications with relevant organizations. The Ogasawara Ecotourism Committee would be interested in our findings and any other relevant information concerning the biodiversity of species in Ogasawara to provide as resources to ecotourists and cater to their interests. |
Ogasawara Village
Hahajima Branch Office 1002211Aza Motochi,Hahajima, Ogasawaramura, Tokyo TEL:0499832111 http://en.vill.ogasawara.tokyo.jp/ The Hahajima Branch of the Ogasawara Village system is the organization that oversees the Hahajima Island under the Ogasawara Village. All branches of the Ogasawara Village promote ecotourism and “interchanges” between islanders and visitors in order to raise awareness and revitalization. |
Ogasawara Ecotourism Resort
Azahigashimachi Chichijima Tokyo 1002101 Tel: 0499823305 Fax: 0499823317 Email: info@takena.com http://takena.com/en/index.html Ogasawara Ecotourism Resort caters specifically to ecotourists by offering packages including their stay at their resort with guided tours. The Ogasawara Ecotourism Resort offers a variety of tours including night hikes and dolphin watching. |
Ogasawara Village Tourist Association
AzaHigashi, Chichijima, Ogasawaramura, Tokyo 1002101 Phone: +81499822587
http://www.ogasawaramura.com/en/ The Ogasawara Village Tourist Association serves as a reference to ecotourists looking for information on Ogasawara. |
Ogasawara Hahajima Tourist AssociationAzamotochi, Hahajima, Ogasawaramura, Tokyo
1002211 Phone: +81499832300 http://www.hahajima.com/en/ Ogasawara Hahajima Tourist Association is an organization of the Hahajima Island of the Ogasawara Islands. The Hahajima Tourist Association serves as a visitor’s information center, providing tourists with various resources during their stay. |
Researchers
Takaya Yasui
Ogasawara Wildlife Research Society, Chichijima, Ogasawara, Tokyo 1002102, Japan http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Takaya_Yasui Mr. Yasui is a botanist, teacher, and leader of the Ogasawara Wildlife Research Society. Mr. Yasui has also contributed to multiple studies researching biodiversity and conservation on the Bonin Islands. The Ogasawara Research Society is credited by Nanyan Guo of the AsiaPacific Journal as “the most representative conservation organization in the [Ogasawara] islands (2009). |
Keiichiro Yoshida
Yokohama National University Education and Human Sciences Yubinbango 2408501 Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture Hodogayaku Tokiwadai 792 http://www.sse.ynu.ac.jp/geo/index.html Professor Yoshida is a professor in the Physical Geography department at Yokohama National University. He has written and cowritten various studies on the hydroclimate of the Ogasawara Islands as well as the impact of soil composition on bird species. |
Toyozo Sato
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS) 212 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058602, Japan http://researchmap.jp/read0166269/?lang=english Dr. Sato is a laboratory head at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences. He specializes in biodiversity and agriculture at NIAS and has worked to compile a list of fungi found in the Ogasawara Islands. |
Tsuyoshi Hosoya
National Museum of Nature and Science Department of Botany, Division of Fungi and Algae Tsukuba Research Laboratories, Sankyo Co. Ltd. 33, Miyukigaoka, Tsukubashi, Ibaraki, 305 Japan http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tsuyoshi_Hosoya/info http://www.kahaku.go.jp/english/research/researcher/researcher.php?d=hosoya Dr. Hosoya works for the National Museum of Nature and Science under the Department of Botany in the Division of Fungi and Algae. Dr. Hosoya contributed to the assessment of mycobiota on KitaIwojima Island of the Ogasawara Islands. |
Yoshikazu Shimizu
Department of Natural Science Komazawa University, Tokyo Yubinbango 1548525 Setagayaku, Tokyo Komazawa 1231 http://researchmap.jp/read0025188/?lang=english Professor Shimizu is a professor of Natural Sciences at Komazawa University in Japan. Professor Shimizu has studied endangered plant species on Ogasawara Island and the pine tree population over a 20year period in Chichijima Island. |
Tetsuto Abe
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Matsunosato 1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050903, Japan Email: [email protected] http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tetsuto_Abe Mr. Abe is affiliated with the Forestry and Forest Product Institute in Japan. He has written articles on subjects like endangered shrubs in the Ogasawara Islands and at risk pollination systems for native flora of the Ogasawara Islands. |
Satoshi Chiba
211, Katahira, Aobaku, SENDAI 9808577 Tel: 0227957560 Email: [email protected] http://www.lifesci.tohoku.ac.jp/en/teacher/satoshichiba/ Associate Professor Chiba works for the Laboratory of Conservation Biology under the Department of Environmental Life Sciences at the Graduate School of Life Sciences of Tohoku University. He is most known for his in depth research of land snails on Ogasawara Islands and has since published studies of seabirds on the Ogasawara Islands. |
Government/International Organizations
Ogasawara Ranger Office for Nature Conservation, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Nishimachi, Chichijima, Ogasawara Village, Tokyo 1002101 Japan TEL: +81 (0)4998 2 7174 FAX: +81 (0)4998 2 7175 EMail: REO[email protected] http://ogasawarainfo.jp/en/inquiry.html The Ogasawara Ranger Office for Nature Conservation is a branch of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment. The Ogasawara Ranger Office for Nature Conservation works towards the conservation of endangered species on Ogasawara as well as eliminating alien invasive species. |
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World Heritage Centre
UNESCO
7, Place de Fontenoy 75732 Paris CEDEX 15 France Tel.: +33 (0)1 45 68 24 96 Fax: +33 (0)1 45 68 55 70 Email: wh[email protected] http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1362 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) identifies World Heritage Sites as determined by the World Heritage Centre that are of cultural or biological/physical significance. The Ogasawara Islands were designed an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011 for its unique ecosystem and the various endemic and endangered species that live on the Ogasawara islands. |