Forefront of Avian Conservation

 Forefront of Avian Conservation

Foreword
Publishing Forefront of Avian Conservation: For the future of endangered birds

Atsushi Tajima
Kazuo Kobayashi

Contents

1. 1.　Contribution of Zoo on the Conservation of Toki (Nipponia nippon)

Kazuo Kobayashi (Ueno Zoological Gardens)

2. 2.　Initiatives for re-introduction of Bali mynah

Toshio Shiraishi (Preservation and Research Center, The City of Yokohama)

3. 3.　On the conservation of Rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)

Hitoshi Murai (Toyama Municipal Family Park Zoo)

4. 4.　Current Status and Future Prospectus of Maintaining Edwards’s Pheasant (Lophura Edwardsi)

Kyoko Matsumoto (Tama Zoological Park)

5. 5.　Blakiston’s Fish-Owl, A Spiritual Village Guardian

Satoshi Fujimoto (Kushiro Zoo)

6. 6.　For the Future of the Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti)

Tatsuya Yamamoto (Tama Zoological Park)

7. 7.　Breeding and conservation of Japanese golden eagles (Aquila Chrysaetos Japonica) at zoos.

 Yoshinori Kojima (Tama Zoological Park)

8. 8.　Conservation of Black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor)

Junko Ishii (Tama Zoological Park)

9. 9.　Breeding initiatives for the Japanese night heron (Gorsachius goisagi).

Eiji Onda (Yokohama Municipal Kanazawa Zoo)

10. 10.　Ex situ conservation of Lagopus muta ─Progress in the past 5 years─

Hitoshi Murai (Toyama Municipal Family Park Zoo)

11. 11.　For the future of Okinawa Rail: Toward Developing “One Plan Approach to Conservation”

Yumiko Nakaya (Okinawa Wildlife Federation, Nonprofit Organization)

12. 　　　　　12.　Points of contact between zoos and poultry science

Atsushi Tajima(Tsukuba University College of Biological Sciences）

We used the Editage’s translation service

Cover photo courtesy of the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center (All rights reserved)