Kawazu Wildlife Control Overview
Kawazu Town’s R5-R7 wildlife-damage prevention plan, subsidy page, and bear caution notice show how local wildlife policy splits into target species, damage baselines, capture targets, bounties, prevention subsidies, trap lending, and safety notices.
Source-layer finding
The strongest Kawazu source is the R5-R7 municipal prevention-plan PDF: seven target species, R3 damage baseline, annual capture targets, fence plans, implementation bodies, trap lending, and disposal routes. The town subsidy page adds a clear incentive split; the 2023 bear notice belongs in a separate safety layer.
This is not an official alert or complete wildlife database. The plan measures agricultural and forestry damage plus management targets; the bear notice is a safety/current-notice layer. Direct bounty coverage was confirmed only for monkey, boar, and deer in the checked town subsidy page.
Official records
What the public records show
Scope: Kawazu Town · Shizuoka Prefecture · Nashimoto · Izu Peninsula. Each panel names where its numbers come from, so prefecture totals, town alerts, and injury documents are not folded into one danger score.
Plan period
R5-R7
FY2023-FY2025 Kawazu Town wildlife-damage prevention plan
Plan species
7
Boar, deer, monkey, civet, Taiwanese squirrel, crows, and bulbuls
R3 crop damage
¥3.617m
619 a and 3,617 thousand yen in the plan baseline
Annual capture target
895
R5-R7 combined annual target across the seven named target species
Direct bounty
¥22k / ¥5k
Monkey: ¥22,000; boar and deer: ¥5,000 per animal on town subsidy page
Prevention subsidy
1/2 · max ¥100k
Electric fences and similar equipment, apply before work starts
Kawazu’s municipal baseline is crop damage by target species
The R5-R7 prevention plan names seven target species and gives a shared R3/FY2021 damage baseline. This measures agricultural/forestry damage, not sightings, human injuries, or bear alerts.
Boar damage dominates the area baseline as well as the yen baseline
The plan also reports damaged area in ares. Keeping area separate from yen prevents the dashboard from turning crop mix and price differences into a fake risk score.
Prefectural context belongs beside, not over, the town plan
Shizuoka Prefecture's R6 crop-damage page gives the wider regional scale. It helps frame the town data but does not replace Kawazu's plan species, incentives, or operational structure.
- Shizuoka R6 crop damage
- ¥269m
- Prefectural total across wild birds and animals; up ¥14.63m from the previous year
- Largest prefectural rows
- Boar 37% · Deer 30%
- Prefecture page reports boar about ¥100m and deer about ¥81m
- Kawazu plan contact
- Industrial Promotion Division
- Town plan lists 河津町役場 産業振興課 as the contact department
Municipal plan, notices, and prevention infrastructure
Kawazu's local layer combines the R5-R7 prevention plan, the town agricultural subsidy page, and a town-hosted bear caution notice. The dashboard keeps the plan species and the bear safety notice apart.
The plan covers all town territory and seven target species
Kawazu's plan is the source of truth for the municipal damage-prevention frame. Bear is not in this target-species list; it is handled as a separate safety-notice layer.
- Plan body
- Kawazu Town
- 河津町鳥獣被害防止計画, R5-R7
- Target area
- Whole town
- The plan area is 全町
- Target species
- 7
- イノシシ, ニホンジカ, サル, ハクビシン, タイワンリス, カラス類, ヒヨドリ
- Authority
- Delegated townwide
- Capture-permission authority is shown as 権限委譲済
Physical prevention has explicit annual fence targets
The R5-R7 plan gives repeated annual prevention-infrastructure targets for boar and deer. Monkey and squirrel measures are described as town-only invasion-prevention projects rather than a shared meter table.
Kawazu prevention-infrastructure plan
| Fiscal year | Boar electric fence | Deer wire mesh |
|---|---|---|
| R5 / FY2023 | 4,000 | 3,000 |
| R6 / FY2024 | 4,000 | 3,000 |
| R7 / FY2025 | 4,000 | 3,000 |
Monkey and Taiwanese squirrel prevention measures are named separately but not expressed as meter totals in this table.
The town support stack is bounties, subsidies, licenses, and trap lending
Kawazu publishes a clearer incentive split than Izu City: per-animal bounties for three species, equipment cost-sharing, trap-license support, and town-owned trap lending. These are implementation incentives, not animal-event counts.
- Trap lending
- 4 species
- Town buys and lends box/snare traps for boar, deer, monkey, and masked palm civet capture applicants
- License pipeline
- Trap-license subsidy
- Partial support for new trap-license exam and prefectural hunting-association prep class
- Chase-away tools
- Monkeys + birds
- Rocket fireworks, firecrackers, and resident-led chase-away are described for monkeys and birds
- Attractant control
- Resident guidance
- Vegetable scraps, unharvested crops, abandoned/fallen fruit, brush, abandoned farmland, and satoyama management
Capture, bounty, safety-notice, and operational response layers
Capture and bounty rows describe authorized management operations. The bear row is a mistaken-capture / public-safety notice. Neither should be merged into crop-damage totals.
The R5-R7 plan sets 895 annual captures across seven species
Capture targets are administrative management targets. They are not sightings, not population estimates, and not automatically equivalent to direct bounty coverage.
Historical captures and plan targets show the operational baseline
The plan publishes recent captures by species, then repeats the R5-R7 plan targets. R4 is partial through December in the extracted row and should not be annualized.
Kawazu capture results and plan targets
| Fiscal year / plan row | Wild boar | Sika deer | Monkey | Masked palm civet | Taiwanese squirrel | Crows | Bulbul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 / FY2019 | 277 | 474 | 24 | 8 | 11 | 0 | Not shown |
| R2 / FY2020 | 383 | 486 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Not shown |
| R3 / FY2021 | 275 | 436 | 22 | 4 | 4 | 7 | Not shown |
| R4 to Dec | 258 | Not shown | Not shown | Not shown | Not shown | Not shown | Not shown |
| R5-R7 plan | 300 | 500 | 50 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 5 |
R4 boar value is through December; the R5-R7 plan row is a repeated annual target, not an observed result.
Direct bounty coverage is confirmed for monkey, boar, and deer only
The town agricultural subsidy page publishes per-animal reward amounts. The same page also separates prevention hardware and trap-license support, which keeps the incentive infrastructure visible.
The incentive split is bounty, prevention subsidy, human-capital subsidy, and hardware lending
Kawazu's subsidy page and prevention plan make four support buckets visible. The dashboard keeps them separate from sightings and crop damage.
- Capture bounty
- Monkey ¥22k; boar/deer ¥5k
- Paid to people with harmful-wildlife capture permission who capture target animals within town
- Prevention hardware
- 1/2 up to ¥100k
- Electric fences and similar equipment; town residents with actual or potential crop damage; apply before installation
- Human capital
- Trap-license support
- Partial subsidy for new trap-license exam and hunting-association prep class, subject to resident/tax/timing conditions
- Hardware/infrastructure
- Town-owned trap loans
- Trap lending supports boar, deer, monkey, and civet capture applicants
- Not confirmed
- No direct bounty found
- Do not imply per-head rewards for civet, Taiwanese squirrel, crows, or bulbuls unless a separate source is verified
Bear belongs in the current safety-notice layer, not the target-species plan
Kawazu has a documented 2023 bear mistaken-capture notice, but the R5-R7 municipal crop-damage plan does not list bear as a routine target species. The notice is a public-safety/prefectural-sighting context row.
- Incident date
- 2023-10-20
- 11:00 a.m. in Nashimoto national forest
- Situation
- Mistaken snare capture
- Male black bear, about 120 cm, caught in a sika-deer snare and released after sedation
- Response bodies
- Town + prefecture + forest + MOE
- Kamo Agriculture and Forestry Office, Izu Forest Management Office, Kawazu Town, Environment Ministry Shimoda office, and qualified contractor
- Later Kawazu hits
- Not found in extracted R6-R8 text
- Phrase as a PDF-text search result, not proof of absence
Disposal, utilization, and emergency response are part of the infrastructure
The plan names implementation bodies and disposal/utilization routes. These are operational capacity signals, not public encounter counts.
- Emergency flow
- Resident → Town → Hunters/Police/Prefecture
- Kamo Hunting Association Kawazu branch, Shimoda Police, and Kamo Agriculture and Forestry Office are named
- Implementation team
- Established R2
- Town-staff wildlife-damage implementation team gives resident guidance and runs model-settlement measures
- Council layer
- Town + JA + hunters + prefecture
- Kawazu harmful-wildlife council and Izu regional countermeasure liaison body are named
- Disposal/utilization
- Gibier / pet food / burial
- Plan mentions permitted meat processors, private processing for pet food, hunter self-consumption, and burial
How these numbers were counted
- •Kawazu's R5-R7 prevention plan is the municipal source of truth for target species, damage baseline, capture targets, and operational structure.
- •Agricultural damage, capture targets, incentives, trap/fence infrastructure, disposal routes, and bear notices are separate layers.
- •Bear is a public-safety / prefectural-sighting context row here, not a routine municipal crop-damage target species in the plan.
- •Direct capture bounty is confirmed for monkey, boar, and deer only in the checked town subsidy page.
- •Subsidies, license support, trap lending, and chase-away equipment are implementation capacity, not sightings or injuries.
The plan layer names seven municipal target species
Kawazu’s prevention plan covers the whole town for FY2023-FY2025 and names boar, sika deer, monkey, masked palm civet, Taiwanese squirrel, crows, and bulbuls as target species.
That municipal target list is the right anchor for crop-damage and capture-policy rows. It should not be expanded to include bear just because a bear notice exists; bear belongs in a separate public-safety layer.
- •R3/FY2021 total damage in the plan: 619 a and 3.617 million yen.
- •Largest damage row: wild boar at 404 a and 2.283 million yen.
- •Annual R5-R7 capture target across all seven species: 895 animals/birds.
Kawazu has a cleaner incentive split than the Izu City plan source
The town agricultural subsidy page separates direct capture rewards, prevention equipment cost-sharing, and trap-license acquisition support. The prevention plan separately describes town-owned trap purchases and lending.
That split is useful because it shows local implementation capacity. Bounty amounts answer who gets paid for authorized capture. Fence subsidies answer prevention infrastructure. License subsidies answer hunter pipeline. Trap lending answers hardware access.
- •Direct bounty: monkey 22,000 yen; boar and deer 5,000 yen.
- •Prevention equipment: half of purchase cost, capped at 100,000 yen, with pre-application required.
- •Human-capital support: partial subsidy for new trap-license exam and prep class.
- •Hardware support: town-owned trap lending for boar, deer, monkey, and masked palm civet applicants.
Bear is a safety notice, not a routine target-species row
The October 20, 2023 Nashimoto bear case is real and source-backed: a male black bear was mistakenly caught in a sika-deer snare in national forest, anesthetized, released, and warning signs were installed.
For the dashboard, that row should stay outside the target-species crop-damage plan. It is a public-safety / prefectural-sighting context row and a trap-friction incident, not evidence of an ongoing municipal bear bounty or bear damage-prevention target.
What remains missing before calling it complete
The current public layer does not identify the private processing facilities used for gibier or pet food in the extracted plan text. It also does not publish direct bounty amounts for civet, Taiwanese squirrel, crows, or bulbuls in the checked subsidy page.
A stronger future version would snapshot current town notices and collect any separate annual capture-result pages, if Kawazu publishes them outside the plan PDF.