OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu announced that, starting it will provide its Mobile Photo System cloud service, a biosurvey tool, free of charge to ten organizations involved in biodiversity conservation activities.

The initiative involves a variety of organizations, including governmental organizations, NPOs, educational research institutes, and community groups. This service can be used to efficiently conduct biosurveys over a wide area and for a variety of objectives, such as in strategic community policies, measures to protect against the introduction of non-native plant species, and distributional surveys of animals and plants. This is expected to promote further progress in biodiversity conservation activities.

The Fujitsu Group will continue employing ICT to promote projects that contribute to the environment through field conservation activities.

To date, Fujitsu has supported biodiversity conservation activities in Japan through the provision of a Mobile Photo System cloud service for Aichi University of Education's Nationwide Dandelion Survey and Kawasaki City's vegetation survey of the Tama River area. Recently, however, Fujitsu invited organizations involved in environmental and biodiversity conservation to apply for the service, with the goal of further advancing their activities. Applications submitted by such organizations were objectively evaluated by a panel of leading outside experts. As a result of this process, ten diverse organizations conducting studies in various locations throughout Japan were selected for the service. They include the Ministry of the Environment, which is conducting a survey of Hakusan National Park to protect against the introduction of non-native plant species, Kurashiki City's development of regional biodiversity strategy, which residents will participate in conducting a biosurvey, Japan Wetlands Society's wetlands
survey of Hokkaido's Tokachi region, and A Thousand Flowers for Bees, a NPO registered in Japan's biological survey of honey bees, which are attracted to garden flowers.