Environmental Culture and World Heritage in Pacific Japan

Japan's Ogasawara (or Bonin) Islands (Ogasawara shotou), dubbed 'the 'Galapagos of the East', are a group of oceanic islands situated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Many of their numerous indigenous fauna and flora are at the brink of extinction, mainly caused by human settlement and construction during the last half century. Among those destructive factors, a plan to build a commercial airport was the most controversial and divided the community. Although the airport plan was withdrawn by the Tokyo Municipal Government in 2001, the native species are still facing various dangers

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