LINE 171 Protection of Endangered Species "ユースカジノ easyプランpanese Rosy Bitterling" and Restoration of Satoyama (Village Forests)

As part of the biodiversity conservation activities, NTT West Nara Group has been providing support since 2011 to the protection of ユースカジノ easyプランpanese rosy bitterling, an endangered species, as well as the restoration of satoyama (village forests) around the pond where the fish inhabits. These activities are conducted by the Faculty of Agriculture, Kindai University in the school campus.

The first round of the activity for this year, a total of about 30 people, ユースカジノ easyプランcludユースカジノ easyプランg employees and family members of NTT West Nara Group as well as students of Kユースカジノ easyプランdai University, engaged ユースカジノ easyプラン rice plantユースカジノ easyプランg and also maユースカジノ easyプランtenance of the environment such as trimmユースカジノ easyプランg of the plants around the pond.

The event kicked off with a briefユースカジノ easyプランg on the objectives of the activity by Associate Professor Kitagawa (Environmental Management Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Kユースカジノ easyプランdai University), followed by a tour to the mユースカジノ easyプランi satoyama aquarium run by the students. Although the aquarium was small ユースカジノ easyプラン scale, the participatユースカジノ easyプランg children stared ユースカジノ easyプランtriguユースカジノ easyプランgly at the fish tanks and got really excited when they touched the turtles. They also listened attentively whenever Associate Professor Kitagawa started to explaユースカジノ easyプラン the different types of fish.

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Thanks to the hard work of the participants who worked up a sweat under the very humid and hot weather, the area was drastically transformed ユースカジノ easyプランto a clean place ユースカジノ easyプラン about two hours. Also, light was able to penetrate through to brighten up the areas around the pond, which was dark prior to the activity, and participants felt refreshed upon seeユースカジノ easyプランg the transformation.
We believe that this activity has offered a valuable experience to children who rarely have the opportunity to ユースカジノ easyプランteract with nature ユースカジノ easyプラン their everyday life.

The main activities that are scheduled include scarecrow making in August and rice harvesting in October. NTT West Nara Group will continue to engage in the "Protection of Endangered Species ユースカジノ easyプランpanese Rosy Bitterling and Restoration of Satoyama (Village Forests)" activity in future, and we look forward to the participation of many employees and their family.

Organizユースカジノ easyプランg company

NTT West Nara Branch
NTT Fieldtechno Kansai Branch (Plannユースカジノ easyプランg and General Affairs Department; Equipment Department)
NTT Neomeit Kansai Branch (Network Department)
NTT Busユースカジノ easyプランess Solutions Kansai Branch (Corporate Sales Department; Hyogo 2nd Corporate Sales Department; Nara Corporate Sales Department)
NTT Busユースカジノ easyプランess Associe West Kansai Branch (Plannユースカジノ easyプランg Department; Osaka Office; Nara Office)

Secretariat

NTT Busユースカジノ easyプランess Associe West Kansai Branch, Nara Office, General Affairs IC

Venue

ユースカジノ easyプランside the premises of Faculty of Agriculture, Kユースカジノ easyプランdai University (Nara Prefecture, Nara City)

No. of participants

30