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• 03/09/2014　Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (6) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity

  Teppei Douke

  Kirihoshidaikon is my 2-year-old daughter’s favorite food.  She sometimes leaves vegetables uneaten, but kirihosidaik...

• 25/07/2014　Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (5) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity

  Ritsu Endo

  In the spring of 2013, I visited the Republic of Seychelles in the West Indian Ocean.  The Seychelles is famous for its end...

• 18/07/2014　Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (4) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity

  Noriko Takemoto

  Which foods remind me of nature? While thinking about this question I received an invitation to a presentation on enjoying veget...

• 27/06/2014　Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (3) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity

  Toshimori Takahashi

  One day during the first week of May, my family and I visited Furumine Shrine (古峯神社) in Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture.  F...

• 16/06/2014　Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (2) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity

  Yoko Aoki

  In the United Kingdom, we have a green leafy vegetable called chard which looks like spinach.  This vegetable can also be f...

• 16/05/2014　Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity (1) Seasons and Local Foods: Sensing Biodiversity

  Ryo Kohsaka

  Recently, I visited Noto Peninsula and participated in the harvest of sangainegi, top onion, indigenous to the area.  A far...

• 11/11/2013　What initially got you interested in biodiversity? (4) What initially got you interested in biodiversity?

  Juan Carlos Castilla

  I got interested in biodiversity by two different. First, and expectantly, at my early academic career when I was a polychaete (...

• 30/09/2013　What initially got you interested in biodiversity? (3) What initially got you interested in biodiversity?

  Rodrigo Gámez-Lobo

  Scientists and educators agree that children are innate beginning explorers and naturalists, and that we humans have an inborn a...

• 09/09/2013　What initially got you interested in biodiversity? (2) What initially got you interested in biodiversity?

  Vo Quy

  One of my first memories as a young boy is of watching birds in the forest. For me the forest of my village contained a lot of s...

• 29/08/2013　What initially got you interested in biodiversity? (1) What initially got you interested in biodiversity?

  Kunio Iwatsuki

  When I was a boy, I lived in a mountainous village in Okutamba, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.  After World War II, I entered a n...

• 05/08/2013　Green Wave Initiative: (7) Invitation to the Green Wave

  Neil Pratt

  The Green Wave is a worldwide project to help children and youth, their parents, teachers and friends learn about biodiversity a...

• 01/07/2013　Green Wave Initiative: (6) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?

  Ade Rustandy, MM

   I joined Green Wave in 2010 through the Children’s Forest Program (CFP) introduced into our school by OISCA.   ...

• 17/05/2013　Green Wave Initiative: (5) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?

  Rajat Agrawal

    I joined the Green Wave in Tohoku co-organized by OISCA and AEON in Japan in the spring of 2012. When I visited Japanes...

• 30/04/2013　Green Wave Initiative: (4) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?

  Yasuaki Nagaishi

    Since 2009, OISCA International (OISCA) has involved more than 24,000 individuals in 18 countries in the campaign as re...

• 16/10/2012　Green Wave Initiative: (3) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?

  José F. González-Maya

  As part of my work in Latin America I always noticed the importance of involving local people in conservation. At the end, conse...

• 31/08/2012　Green Wave Initiative: (2) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?

  Jan Schipper

  While working with the crew from the 1000 Days for the Planet mission, myself and other members of the Sierra to Sea Institute h...

• 21/06/2012　Green Wave Initiative: (1) What impressed you the most in the countries where you visited for the Green Wave Initiative?

  Jean Lemire

  As part of our mission 1000 Days for the Planet, I had the privilege of visiting the Midway Atoll, part of the Papahānaumokuākea...