Human Practice/Silver

1) Engaging the general public

Through the following activities, we constantly drove our project with a general viewpoint by exchanging opinions and discussions with non-professionals as well as professionals.

• November Festival at Kyoto University 11/20/2015-11/24/2015
• Kansai Forum 2/19/2016
• May Festival at University of Tokyo 05/15/2016-05/16/2016
• Asia Pacific Conference 07/31/2017~08/04/2017

2) Engaging professionals

We visited the Kyoto City Forestry Association and the Kyoto Osaka Forestry Association to listen to the measures taken in Kyoto City against pine-wilt disease and grasp the problems of the existing measures.
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3) Forest survey

In order to know the current situation of pine-wilt disease in Kyoto, we actually went to mountains three times and ran a survey.
We also collected pine wood nematodes there as a survey.
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These activities fulfill Silver criteria.