Introduction: Vanishing Animals -- Destructive Discourses : Animals within a Symbolic World -- As Charming as a Pig -- From Flu-like Virus to Deadly Disease -- Counter-discourses : Animals in Ecology and Environmentalism -- The Curtailed Journey of the Atlantic Salmon -- Boyd's Forest Dragon or the Survival of Humanity -- From Counter-discourses to Alternative Discourses : Environmental Education in Japan -- Haiku and Beyond -- Zen and the Art of Environmental Education