雪鯨橋（せつげいばし）の話

みなさん、袖振るもカオスの縁

これはOKさんにのみ送ってもよかったのだが……OKさんは単独であるいは学生とともに、日本の動物供養などの調査をされており、ブログなどにもそのような名所旧跡の探訪記があります。
昨日のこちらの夕刊に、雪鯨橋の記事がありました。動物と社会、自然と文化のインターフェィスを考えるのに、日本の事例をあげるのもいいと思い（とくにSINSINさんの授業なんかで、モンゴル・チベットの供儀と鯨の供儀の比較など話題提供）配信します。
「私には、また別の専門科目があるのだ、世人は仮にその科目を愛とよんでゐる」太宰治「津軽」
"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth." by Charles Darwin, in "Origin of Species."
◎ナショナルバイオリソースプロジェクト
"[T]he United Nations General Assembly has named 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity, with a meeting scheduled in New York next September... The following month, parties to the biodiversity convention will gather in Nagoya, Japan, to develop specific and verifiable biodiversity targets for nations over the coming decades. These meetings give countries an incentive to start protecting vital ecosystems during the next 11 months so that they can head to the Nagoya summit boasting of success......These 'win–win' situations are natural starting points for conservation efforts because they are easily sold to politicians and other stakeholders.,"(Editorial, Nature 462, 251-252 (19 November 2009)).