2025 Volume 13 Pages 65-68
To facilitate science-based wildlife management at the national and local levels, specialists with higher education in wildlife management should be appointed in relevant jobs. However, the number of such specialists with higher education among the current officers in the wildlife management division of the local government is less than 2%.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries together with the Ministry of the Environment established the Committee for Wildlife Management Education and outlined a core curriculum for wildlife management education in 2021. The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology with five other universities and two institutes have been teaching these model wildlife management education programs since 2022. The Association for Wildlife and Human Society (AWHS) established the Working Group for Wildlife Management Education and a certificate system and discussed the role of the academy in wildlife management education in 2021. The society also held a thematic session on this subject at the 27th AWHS academic gathering in 2022.
This paper discusses the conditions necessary for the widespread implementation of the certificate system for wildlife management education.
