NACS-J - THE NATURE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF JAPAN -

Chairman of the board of the Directors	Akira KAMEYAMA, landscape architecture, landscape ecology, professor emeritus, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Executive Director	Masahito YOSHIDA, chair of the Japan committee for IUCN, conservation ecology, world heritage studies, associate professor, University of Tsukuba
10 Directors, 3 Advisers, 2 Inspectors	including university professors, museum curators, school teachers, journalists, etc
14 Trustees	including university professors, museum curators, school teachers, journalists, etc
25 staff	divided into: Conservation Project Division, Conservation Research Division, Education and Public Awareness Division, Editorial Division and Administration Division.

Conservation Project Division

·Conservation of the ecosystems of forests, rivers and streams,wetlands, coral reefs, traditional villages and their surrounding woodlands
·Recommendations concerning the systems for nature conservation

Conservation Research Division

·Basic research necessary for conservation activities
·Research necessary to resolve conservation controversies
·Cooperation and coordination with domestic and international nature conservation organizations (such as IUCN)

Education & Public Awareness Division

·Training of nature conservation educators
·Publishing environmental education materials
·Public relations activities to increase individual menberships

Editorial Division

·Publication of “Shizen Hogo”, the bimonthly bulletin
·Website development and management

Administration Division

·Managing the secretariat
·General affairs , accounting, labor management, fund-raising