The Northeast Asia Youths' Environmental Symposium 2006
１ Presentation and Declaration
・ Reports of the Activities on the Environmental Protection
11groupes (2 from Japan, 2 from China, 3 from Korea, 4 from Russia）presented their own
activities regarding the environmental protection such as wildlife preservation or forest conservation.
・ Environmental Study
Participants went to a river to catch aquatic creatures and used them to study to check thecontamination level of water and studied the biodiversity of what they captured.
・ Exchange of opinions for the Symposium Declaration
The participants exchanged opinions regarding what people living in the Northwest Asia should dofor the environmental protection in the region.
２ Symposium Outline（１）Date:August 21(Mon) - 22(Thu)（２）Venue:

Vladivostok, Premorsky, Russia- School for gifted children, Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service- All Russia Children Center "OKEAN"（３）Organizers:
Chief Organizer: Toyama Pref. NPEC, Russia Premorsky Administration
Sponsor: Council of Local Authorities for International Relations（４）Participants: (63 groups of 6 municipalities from 4 countries)
97 students

Japan: 6（from Toyama）

of middle

China: 8（from Liaoning）

schools

Korea: 8（3 from Gangwon, 5 from Chungchong-nam)Russia: 75（72 from Premorsky, 3 from Khabarovsk)（５）Theme: Environmental protection（６）Contents:○ Addresses:

P. G. KORCHAGIN Head of Department, Primorsky Region Administration
Nature Management Department
Tetsuro MITA Executive Director of NPEC

○ Presentations（11groups）
・ The ecology life studied through observation of the mountain (Toyama: Kamitaira Middle
School, Nannto City)・ The 20th anniversary of Tanabata Volunteer Activity (Toyama: Shinminato Seibu Middle

School, Imizu City）
・ Protecting our friends, and maintaining the web of life (Liaoning)・ The story from “a badger's cave” (Liaoning)・ Growing beautiful forest in the school (Kangwon)
・ Report of the activities and experiences in our environment (Chungchon-nam)
・ Growing flowers in the school (Chungchon-nam)・ Participation in the social and environmental activity "Likander" (Premorsky)
・ The environmental protection and educational activities in our school (Premorsky)
・ The research report of observing Stork in the field and its chicks indoor（Khabarovsk)
・ The protection activity for the spring water source and research activity on the water quality
in Bichiha（Khabarovsk)○ Environmental Study
・ The water quality assessment through freshwater bio-monitoring and with invertebrates(T.S. VSHIVKOVA, Researcher of Russian Academy of Science Fareast Brunch)
・ The biodiversity sustains the ecology (environment) ～ the environment sustained bymicroorganisms～（Dr. Shogo NAKAMURA, Dept. of Environmental Biology and Chemistry, Faculty ofScience, University of Toyama)○ Exchange of opinions for the Symposium Declaration

Opinions for the Symposium Declaration＜To start what you can do, now!＞・To protect the natural environment where wild birds live, rivers and the ocean must be restored tothepristine conditions. We have to do what we can do right now. First of all, we have to continue toremove litter and grow trees and flowers. We want to be always close to nature with theexperience of this symposium. (Japan）
・We are not politicians nor presidents of big companies. For us it is important to focus on theimmediate circumstances and do what we can do now to protect the environment. Let's startfrom little things（Russia）＜To continue our activities＞
・We grow medical herbs which face extinction and study them to stop extinction. We aresure this is very important, so will continue it. (Russia）
・Many pine trees have been cut down, then its number is decreased. We, the Eco-club, haveplanted trees. What we have done may be a little thing, but trees are surely increasing one byone. We are very happy to see it. If everyone of you plant one tree, it increases the greeneryand makes the environment healthy. (Russia）＜To extend the activities＞
・We, the Eco-club, do a clean up activity in our community. Our village is famous for the cleanwater. Our activity should lead to prevention against water contamination and the environmental
protection in the end. We want to extend it in other communities, so call for other schools
around to join us. (Russia）

１ The Symposium

２ The Environmental Study（Water quality assessment）

３ Exchange of opinions for the Symposium Declaration