Commentary / World Feb 8, 2020
Why we must save endangered wetlands
by Martha Rojas Urrego
Wetlands, our most valuable ecosystem, are rapidly disappearing.
National Oct 18, 2018
Japan adds Miyagi and Tokyo sites to list of internationally important wetlands
Japan has designated two coastal areas to be of international importance, raising the number of such sites around the country to 52, the only international conservationist body focused on wetlands said Thursday. Seen as key habitats for waterfowl and other creatures, Shizugawa Bay in Miyagi ...
World / Science & Health Sep 27, 2018
Wetlands disappearing three times faster than forests, Ramsar Convention environmental group says
Wetlands are disappearing at an alarming rate across the globe, an international environmental group reported Thursday, urging policymakers to do more. Wetlands disappeared by 35 percent between 1970 and 2015, a rate three times that of forests, due to climate change and other "global megatrends" ...
National Jun 2, 2017
Tokyo angling to get waterfowl habitat Kasai Rinkai Park listed on Ramsar wetland treaty
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is working toward listing a major seaside park in Tokyo Bay in the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, NHK reported Friday. Kasai Rinkai Park in Edogawa Ward is known as a habitat for various species of waterfowl. To register the park ...
Environment | OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK Feb 6, 2016
Swans, and us, at risk as wetlands shrink
by C.W. Nicol
Soon after the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the huge tsunami it triggered that killed almost 16,000 people and left more than 2,500 missing in the Tohoku region of northeastern Honshu, our C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust contacted the many ...
National Jun 4, 2015
Wetland preservation certificates awarded to four more sites in Japan
Certificates of the preservation of wetlands were issued under an international treaty to four more sites in Japan at a ceremony Wednesday in the Uruguayan city of Punta del Este. The four — Yoshigadaira, Hinuma, Higashiyoka and Hizen-Kashima — bring the total number of Ramsar ...
National May 23, 2014
Japan's wetlands and mud flats are worth ¥1.6 trillion a year in terms of water purification and food supply, the Environment Ministry estimates in a call for preservation.
Commentary / World | SENTAKU MAGAZINE Nov 28, 2011
The Japan Medical Association (JMA), once the most powerful lobby group with mighty political clout, still clings to its position of staunchly opposing any scheme to increase the number of doctors, in order to protect its own vested interests. As the nation faces an increasing ...