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21 Asia Pac. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/apjel21 and id is 1 raw text is: Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 21, 2018, pp. 1-3 Editorial Public participation and the protection of biodiversity in the Asia Pacific region 1 APJEL IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION This is the third year of publication of the Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law (APJEL) under the ownership of Edward Elgar. This is also the year in which APJEL will grow, as planned, from a single issue to two issues per year. Over the past three years APJEL has published articles that have engaged with environmental law issues across many jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region, including China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. We look forward in future issues to expanding further the geographical reach of the research that APJEL publishes on environmental law issues in this dynamic region. We remain extremely pleased by the level of interest in APJEL and the many high quality submissions that we receive. We are also delighted to advise that APJEL has recently been accepted by Clarivate Analytics into the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), and will be indexed and abstracted in that Index. In this issue APJEL features three articles which have general relevance for readers across the region and which draw from case studies from Australia, Indonesia and Japan. 2 THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE Evan Hamman's article aims to provide some insight into the relationship between peo- ple and wildlife in the context of environmental law. The article considers the attitude of the Japanese people toward birdlife and toward wetlands and toward environmental law. A case study of the Japanese 'red-crowned' crane (the tancho) and of Ramsar sites in Eastern Hokkaido is presented, in order to examine Japan's environmental gov- emance systems and actors and the extent to which they utilize the principle of public participation. Wetlands and birdlife are being lost in East Asia at a rapid rate, and the impacts that such losses may have on communities and on national identity are consid- ered. The issue is not unique to Japan-neighbouring Asian countries like China and Korea, both of which have their own cultural perceptions and legal protections to con- sider, face similar realities. Australia, which has bilateral conventions relevant to birdlife with all of these three Asian countries should be interested-as should be any of the 170 contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, 1971. Wetlands, as Hamman explains, have a vital role to play in the preservation of biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services to human beings. In achieving the object of preserving biodiversity so that such ecosystem provision may be main- tained, it is crucial that there be public participation-both of relevant local 0 2018 The Author Journal compilation 0 2018 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Lypiatts, 15 Lansdown Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 2JA, UK and The William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court, Northampton MA 01060-3815, USA

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