Members of the Zoological Society of Japan

The Biological Sciences Federation (BioSciJ), to which our society belongs, has started a petition requesting an increase in Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI).
Below, along with a brief background explanation, I am forwarding an email from the Life Science Federation.
President of the Zoological Society of Japan, Terakita

The Life Sciences Consortium's current initiative to request an increase in Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research consists of the following two parts. The email below from the Life Sciences Consortium corresponds to (2).
(1) Petitions submitted directly to the government by the Federation of Life Sciences and supporting academic societies
(2) Signatures on petition sites open to both researchers and non-researchers (open to anyone)
This academic society has discussed the matter in the board of directors and supports this initiative.
For the background, detailed information, and main purpose of these requests, please check the Shimoseikaren website.
https://seikaren.org/news/16871.html

Members who agree are encouraged to share this information with those close to them.

**** Email from Seikaren ****

Start of Signature Collection for the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Increase Request Form

Members of the Federation of Biological Scientific Societies

Thank you very much for your continued support of the campaign to increase Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI).
This is the secretariat of the Federation of Biological Scientific Societies.

We have now started gathering signatures for the "Petition to Increase the Total Budget for Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research."
Please access the signature page from the link to the Japan Association of Biological Sciences website below.

Petition for an Increase in the Total Amount of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

＜署名方法＞
On the endorsement form, enter 1 your name and 2 your email address, then click the "Endorse Now" button. An email will be sent to verify your email address, so please be sure to enter a currently available email address.
After clicking the specified URL in the confirmation email sent after signing—which states, "Please note that your signature will be canceled if your email address is not verified"—and completing the verification, your account registration is finalized and your signature becomes active. Please be aware that without verifying your registration email, your signature on the petition page may become invalid.
Please note that upon email verification, clicking the URL will validate your endorsement, so no further action is required and you may safely leave the page.

For details on the signing method, please refer to how to support the change.org online petition at the URL below.

https://help.change.org/ja_JP/supporting-petition/sign-a-petition

Also, with the start of the signature campaign, we plan to create a "Volunteer Association Societies" page on the Science Council of Japan website. We will notify you once it is ready.

Thank you for your continued support.