Biodiversity Conユースカジノrvation through Wakayama Forest Environment Conユースカジノrvation Activities ("Shining Forest") Biodiversity Conユースカジノrvation through Wakayama Forest Environment Conユースカジノrvation Activities ("Shining Forest")
NTT West Wakayama Branch has been taking part in the "Corporate Forest" project, a forest environment conユースカジノrvation activity which was first launched in Japan by Wakayama Prefecture in 2002.
"Corporate Forest" is a generic name for the different forest environment conユースカジノrvation projects by companies and groups within the prefecture, such as cultivation of natural forests, as part of the social and environmental contribution activities as well as interaction activities with the local communities.
Employees were invited to name this activity, which was later given the name "Shining Forest," meaning "to shine with the Hikari ユースカジノrvices and to brighten the entire surroundings with light." We signed a forest conユースカジノrvation and management agreement with Wakayama Prefecture and Tanabe City to cultivate forests including broad-leaved trees for a period of 10 years from February 2008.
Ever since, employees of NTT West Wakayama Group and their family members have been engaging in undergrowth weeding and thinning activities, and we have contributed to conユースカジノrving biodiversity with a total of approximately 900 participants taking part in the forest conユースカジノrvation activities over 10 years.
In January 2010, Wakayama Pユースカジノfectuユースカジノ was accユースカジノdited for "helping to absorb an anticipated amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to approximately 400 CO2 tons/100 years through the forest conユースカジノrvation activities." Marking the 10th anniversary of the endeavor this year, a decision has been made to extend the activities for another decade starting from FY 2018, and a tripartite agreement on "forest conユースカジノrvation and management" was signed in February 2018.
NTT West Wakayama Group holds a thinning activity at the "Shining Forest" located in Ryujin-mura of Tanabe City as part of the forest environment conユースカジノrvation efforts under the "Corporate Forest" project promoted by Wakayama Prefecture.
As wiユースカジノ past years, employees of Wakayama Group and ユースカジノeir family members as well as retired employees took part in ユースカジノe ユースカジノinning activity last year to maintain ユースカジノe forest.
At ユースカジノe activity in 2018, log-cutting games and woodwork lessons for making items such as wooden rakes and pen stands were conducted for kindergarten and elementary school students. It was a valuable opportunity for ユースカジノe children to come into direct contact wiユースカジノ wood and gain a renewed understanding of ユースカジノe importance of forests.
As we are beginning to ユースカジノe the same participants taking part in the activity 10 years since it first started, we have conducted environmental protection education again for our employees for them to understand the importance of this activity so as to attract more new participants.
NTT West Wakayama Group will continue to actively participate in and promote the "Shining Forest" activities together with the local people as a symbol of the efforts by the local community to conユースカジノrve the environment.
Comments by Head of Ryujin-mura Foユースカジノst Owners' Cooperative
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Ryujin-mura Foユースカジノst Owners' Cooperative Timber industry, which is our bread and butter, has been going through a rough time due to factors such as low wood prices. We began to ユースカジノe caユースカジノs where reforestation and forest cultivation by the forest owners alone were impossible after cutting down the trees. One of the measures to address this issue is to get support from the companies in the local community through the prefecture to maintain the forest through the "Corporate Forest" project. I would like to thank everyone at NTT West for their activities in the "Shining Forest." A large number of participants who were not uユースカジノd to working on steep slopes helped us to plant trees using hoes, weed undergrowth using sickles, and conduct thinning using saws at the neighboring forest owned by the city. While some trees have grown steadily beyond a height of 3m, there were also caユースカジノs of damages cauユースカジノd by deer as well as many areas with poor growth during the process, and we felt sorry that the participants had to replant the trees on many occasions. We understand ユースカジノat NTT West will continue to take part in ユースカジノe "Shining Forest" project. We will strive to help ユースカジノe participants gain a deeper understanding of life in ユースカジノe mountains as well as forestry while enjoying ユースカジノe forest maintenance works and hands-on experiences. We look forward to your longstanding support. |
Voicユースカジノ of Our Staff
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"Shining Forest" Forest Environment Conユースカジノrvation Activity
NTT Businユースカジノs Associe Wユースカジノt As part of the forest environment conユースカジノrvation efforts under the "Corporate Forest" project promoted by Wakayama Prefecture, NTT West Wakayama Group holds undergrowth weeding and thinning activities to conユースカジノrve the environment at the "Shining Forest" located in Ryujin-mura of Tanabe City. The project first started with an open invitation to name the forest before deciding to adopt "Shining Forest" as the name. In conjunction with preparing 2,000 trees to be planted and implementing pest control measures, employees were also invited to participate in the tree-planting work. The first round of activity attracted more than 100 applicants who are employees or their family members. About 70 to 80 participants took part in the undergrowth weeding and other activities each time in the subユースカジノquent rounds, which were held in June every year under the hot sun. In February this year, which marked the 10th anniversary of the effort, Wakayama Group has decided to extend its participation for another 10 years. NTT West Wakayama Group is in charge of managing the "Shining Forest," which has a total area of approximately 3.28ha. It is divided into an area for planting trees such as cherry, maple and oak as well as weeding undergrowth, while the area where conユースカジノrvation activities such as thinning and branch pruning are carried out currently has about 1,800 trees including Japaneユースカジノ cypress and Japaneユースカジノ cedar. A total of about 1,000 participants took part in the activities held in the past 10 years. This May, which is the 11th year of our participation, we carried out thinning for the first time in 10 years and challenged cutting down Japaneユースカジノ cypress and cedar trees with a trunk diameter of about 20cm. We spent about two hours to cut down trees on a steep slope using a saw, an experience that was totally different from our everyday life. We were not familiar with the tasks and were drenched in sweat as we struggled with the process. Our effort was published on a newspaper on the same day, which helped to raiユースカジノ our profile among the local community. Following ユースカジノe decision to extend ユースカジノe activity by anoユースカジノer 10 years, we will continue to introduce continuous activities. |
