Team:Gifu/HP/Silver

 

HUMAN PRACTICES SILVER



Survey of the Droppings damage in Echizen city, Fukui prefecture


In recent years, urbanization in Japan is advanced, so the environment has changed. Therefore, it has been an increase in the Droppings damage in urban areas. Of course Echizen city is no exception.
We were able to get research funds from an organization in Echizen city. This city assists people and teams who would like to some activities that contribute to local life in there.
To give some basic background information, there are some places in Echizen city that are polluted due to birds’ droppings. We therefore made a presentation in Echizen city because we thought that our study could help to solve the problem.
After the presentation, we conducted a field survey to check the circumstances of birds’ droppings in Echizen city. In the field survey, we found some birds’ droppings under the utility pole, but we weren’t able to find the terribly polluted place. However, the city officer and local resident told that there were some polluted places and many wild birds in Echizen city few years ago.
Though we had testimonies, why we were not able to find terribly polluted place. We thought this reason. The action of the wild bird becomes active at the beginning of September. So, we thought that the season of our survey was not suitable. We have to conduct the survey, when the wild birds are active.