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NEXCO EAST Obihiro Management Office (Koto-gun Otofimachi) invites children from Ikeda Elementary School and will hold a bird house installation meeting and a snowplow tours tour, so we will inform you.

In addition, after the Birdhouse is set up, we will invite Mr. Hisashi Shibukawa, Vice President of Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, to take a walk around the rest facility with children and observe wild animals.

Bird House installation of efforts, by the original expert NPO the guidance of a bird house activities, produced a Western-style hives ingenuity, installed in the trees of the service area (SA) and parking area (PA), Expressway is intended to provide the opportunity to interact with nature in the wayside of elementary school students.

1. 1. Date and time

May 19th (Fri) 10:00-11:50

2. place

<Installation>

Doto Expressway Nagareshi PA, Sapporo direction (In-bound)

<Visit>

NEXCO EAST Obihiro Management Office
(Address: Otofuke West Line 2 7-3, Otofuke Town, Kato-gun)

3. 3. participant

27 fourth grade students from Ikeda Municipal Ikeda Elementary School

Four. Cooperation

Feathered Friend NPO (Obihiro City)
Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, National University Corporation

5. Implementation details

1. Birdhouse installation event (starting at 10:00)
   Birdhouses made by children will be set up at Nagareshi PA on Doto Expressway.
   (Production date: February 23rd)
   In addition, while strolling around the rest area, Mr. Hisashi Yanagawa, Vice President of Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, gave a speech
   There will be wildlife viewing and a talk on "Expressway and Nature."
2. Tour of Expressway management equipment and snow removal vehicles (10:50 AM)
   At NEXCO EAST Obihiro Management Office, the tour will have a chance to see the disaster prevention room and snowplows and other vehicles used on Expressway.

Reference [Past situation]

Activities related to the production and installation of birdhouses for elementary school students began in 2005 and will be the 13th year this year.
To date, more than 2,100 birdhouses have been built, some of which have been installed in Expressway rest facilities.

Introduction of Vice President Shibukawa

• Name: Yanagawa Hisashi
• Director and Vice President, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, National University Corporation
• Specialization: Mammalogy, Ornithology, Wildlife Management (Applied Zoology)
• Degree Doctor of Agriculture
• Main research theme
  Research on the classification, ecology and conservation of small forest mammals such as squirrels, flying squirrels and bats
  Study on the relationship between wildlife and development, especially roads
  Actual conditions and preventive measures for wildlife traffic accidents, actual conditions and measures to resolve habitat fragmentation by roads
  Development activities and wildlife (implementation of assessment, midigation, monitoring)