Special exhibition "What are the SDGs at Aqua World Oarai?" to be held from September 7th
To coincide with SDGs Week, Aqua World Oarai will be holding an event to look at issues related to the SDGs through the activities and results they have undertaken to date, and to reconsider what they can do now.
What is SDGs Week?
Global Goals Week will be held from September 9 to 25, 2024, including the date the SDGs were adopted on September 9. Events are being held around the world to raise awareness of the SDGs.
| Exhibition period | Saturday, May 2024, 9 - Sunday, June 7, 9 |
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| Exhibited creatures | Pufferfish, Bearded bream, etc. |
| Venue | 3rd floor: Shark Daddy's Room Outdoor area: Penguin reference room, etc. |
During the event, panels will be used to introduce the activities that Aqua World Oarai has been working on to achieve the SDGs. In addition, aquariums will be exhibited with creatures collected during beach seine surveys at the mouth of the Nakagawa River, adjacent to Aqua World Oarai, and panels will be set up around the venue that share visitors' own efforts toward the SDGs.
The content is designed to help people feel closer to the SDGs and provide an opportunity to think about the future.
Mambora Festa held ~Transform your discarded items with crafts! ~
The Mambola Club, a volunteer group active at Aqua World Oarai, will be holding their annual Mambola Festa on September 9th (Sun) and 15th (Mon, national holiday) during the festival. On the day, you can enjoy making crafts using discarded items together with the volunteer staff.
| Dates | September 2024th (Sunday), 9th (Monday/Holiday), 15 |
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| open time | 9:30-15:30 |
| Venue | 5th floor: Living Creature Discovery Classroom Lecture Room |
Aqua World OaraiFormulating a new tagline for sustainability activities
Aqua World Oarai opened in March 2002 with the basic theme of "The Sea and Nature of Ibaraki, the Sea of the World and the Global Environment," and has been working on various initiatives to conserve the diversity of living creatures and the natural environment since before the term "SDGs" was even coined. In addition to exhibiting creatures in the aquarium, we have also continued educational outreach activities, such as holding lectures where visitors can learn about living creatures together with the keepers, with the aim of deepening interest in living creatures and the marine environment.
This time, Aqua World Oarai will be celebrating SDGs Week by looking back on its sustainability activities to date and introducing a new tagline based on its efforts and results."Mirai Try Ooarai"This will clarify the direction of our future activities and further our efforts towards achieving the SDGs.
This tagline expresses our desire to continue challenging ourselves to do what we can for a sustainable future at Aqua World Oarai. We also wrote "Mirai" in hiragana so that it can be familiar to a wide range of generations, from children to adults. The design of the logo mark expresses our desire to continue challenging ourselves toward the future by varying the size of the letters and the length of the diagonal lines, and uses the colors of the 17 SDGs to express our strong will to promote activities toward the realization of a sustainable society as a whole.
For an introduction to the SDGs-related initiatives undertaken by our Embassy, please seeClick here for the guidelines. for more information.