The lecture about Ehime’s nature and environment in ‘Iyo-education’ class

 

○date                             Monday, May 18, 2015  14:25 ~ 16:05

○location                        Ehime University High-school, Multipurpose study room

○participants                 10th graders

○lecturer                        Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University  Associate professor  Emi Takeyama

We had a lecture in the theme of “Thinking about the coexistence of human and wild animals”.  She explained to us that the faculty of Agriculture is a place to study environmental problems, which is caused when human and environment (nature) meets. Environment greatly influences human as well as human greatly influence environment. So it’s up to us humans to create a better environment. She explained to us that it is dangerous to artificially change the ecosystem, the characteristics of citrus fruit cultivating of our hometown Ehime, and that damage by wild boar in Ehime is great.  After that, we had a group discussion in the theme of “What should we do if a wild boar came to our campus?”.

 

Comments from students: A

I have never really considered environment carefully till today. After hearing this lecture, I realized that this indifference also leads to considering environmental problems as somebody else’s business. The environmental problems around us are all caused by humans. I think that we could make the environment better, too. I will stop considering environmental problems somebody else’s business and start with what I can do.

 

Comments from students: S

The issues that we’ve discussed today were all likely to occur in real life, too. I think we need to take a fresh look at these issues from this perspective. Just thinking about animals that are familiar to me would lead to changing the way I look at them. I want to work on this region’s issues without making unfounded inferences.

 

Comments from students: N

Nature was closer to me than I imagined. I once again realized the difficulty of us humans, nature and animals living together in harmony. I want to value the attitude to face these type of region’s problems even though it may be hard to find a solution.