2021 Volume 26 Issue 3 Pages 69-73
SENDAI UMINO-MORI AQUARIUM, which has been open for five years, is facing various challenges. In this paper, we focus on "health management and medical system of domestic animals", and describe four items in detail, and introduce our efforts to solve them. The solution of each issue is to protect the lives of rare breeding animals under a thorough health management and medical care system, to actively engage in breeding, and to display animals on a long-term and permanent basis. It is thought that it will lead to the practice of health management that considers the welfare of breeding animals, which is the mission of the zoo and aquarium, and eventually the conservation of wildlife and the natural environment. It is important to maintain the high awareness of the staff at the root of problem solving, and must work in parallel with problem solving. It is necessary for the entire aquarium to unite with a high level of awareness, and for the entire aquarium in Japan to cooperate and disseminate to the entire society.
