Host: Center for Environmental Information Science
Pages 145-150
The Amami Oshima Island has many rare species, whose conservation needs to persist with forestry and tourism. The present study identified the current state of forest cutting and tourism. Then, it selected Uken Village, as the forest management plan had been determined, and proposed and evaluated forest management alternatives that took rare species conservation into account. Cutting was conducted mostly in Uken and Yamato Village, while many tourists visited an intact forest and Amami rabbit habitat in Amami City. Criteria were provided to evaluate forestry, rare species conservation and tourism in terms of forest age among the alternatives. Every alternative gave smaller area of cutting than that in the recent years and the alternative that allows short logging rotation cycle in small areas, leaving all the rest as either under a long cycle or no cutting.
