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The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund

Introduction to Grant Projects

FY2007

Research regarding the habits and conservation of Japanese macaques inhabiting cool-temperate zones: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Earthwatch Institute Japan

TREES4Life: Tubong Pinoy Movement: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Earth Day Network Philippines, Inc. (Filipino NGO - recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Asia Pacific BU)

Energy security, ethanol and food security, sustainable energy projects: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Earth Policy Institute (U.S.A. NGO) (recommended by overseas office)

Riverside courses: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Iidashi Tenryugawa Kankyo Seibu Kosha

Eco-Cabin Creation Project - Lifestyle workshops that enable training on permanent renewable energy homes: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Iwate Research Institution of Children and Environment

Creating a network and spaces for conducting environmental training and nature experiences on Mikurajima Island in the Izu archipelago: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Bridge

Aiming for a sustainable society through the construction and management of a "the best mix for living" education system: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Ecoken

The construction of health risk monitoring systems from exposure to dioxins in Vietnam: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Kanazawa Medical University School of Medicine Associate Professor Muneko Nishijo

Contributing to East Asia environmental governance by atmospheric environmental monitoring on the Noto Peninsula: the Noto supersite concept: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Organization of Frontier Science and Innovation, Kanazawa University Professor Yasunobu Iwasaka

Project for restoring ayumodoki, a species designated as a national treasure, through rice paddy fish channels and use of idle farmland: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: KAMEOKA Network of Nature and Human

Restoring the wetlands of Burnet Bay: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Galveston Bay Foundation (US NGO) (recommended by overseas office)

(Environmental Personnel Training Project) "Eco Products 2007" and the environment-themed lessons "Science Classroom 2007", "7th Environment Koshien", "2nd Environmental Slogan Awards" and "1st Environmental Photo Contest": Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Tohoku Chamber of Environment

Eco-products Tohoku events: 1. Learning about the environment through science - environmental science classes to be held annually for three years; 2. Environmental Koshien, environmental photo contest, and environmental slogan grand prize - to be held annually for three years: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Tohoku Chamber of Environment

Building international cooperative and CDM-related networks, conducting research, and providing information in order to tackle climate change issues: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES)

Proposing regionally-tailored policy packages for creating societies to combat global warming: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: The Japan Coalition of Local Governments for Environmental Initiative Environmental Policy Research Center Naoki Masahara, Researcher

Introducing composting techniques to reduce the burning of crop residue in the Mekong Basin: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Institute of Environmental Rehabilitation and Conservation (ERECON)

Planting activities in the former Matsuo mine wasteland area by utilizing fisheries waste products: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Environmental ecology laboratory

Using land in Laos' mountain regions in a way that supports both sustainable agricultural production and forest conservation: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: United Nations University Environment and Sustainable Development Programme Luohui Liang, Academic Program Officer

Sustainable village development model for promoting renewable energy and environmental conservation in the Cordillera Central region of Luzon, Philippines: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP)

Joint Japan-Russia research on the Northern Territories and Kuril Islands, compilation of data: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Mari KOBAYASHI, Director, Kita-no-umi Animal Center

Woodland partner' - a project to restore woodland beside the Hirusawa River: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Environment Network of Forest & Rivers in Hokkaido

Rehabilitation of tropical degraded forests and of local communities living with them: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University Professor Shigeo Kobayashi

Construction of a platform in Asia for the development/diffusion of process technologies for adaption to climate change and amelioration of disaster damage: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University Associate Professor Rajib Shaw

Creation and evaluation of a global precipitation map using satellite data: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Kyoto University Graduate Schol of Science, Associate Professor, Shoichi Shige

Protecting Toyama's forests by creating an environment for the co-existence of humans and forests: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kintaro Club (with participation from the Mitsui & Co. Hokuriku Branch)

Researching, conserving and encouraging the breeding of melitaea protomedia, a category I endangered species found in the southernmost parts of Japan and Kusama, Niimi: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kurashiki University of Science and The Arts

Cultivating seedlings and planting native trees: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Clean and Green Foundation (recommended by overseas office)

A nature diary program for promoting environmental education to elementary school students in Sri Lanka: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Green Cross Japan

Construction of a system to monitor air pollution resulting from forest/peat fires in conjunction with Indonesian biofuel production; elucidation of the true situation: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Keio University, Faculty of Science and Technology Professor Shigeru Tanaka

Encouraging conservation in Koajiro Forest: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Koajiro Yagai Katsudo Chosei Kaigi

Cooperating to improve skills and cultivating volunteers to encourage greening in Lanzhou on the western edge of China's Huangtu Plateau: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Koga-no-Mori Ryoka Network (KGF)

Accumulations of chemical substances in enclosed coastal seas and their influence on marine life: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University Professor Hideo Okamura

Encouraging the diversification of coral groups in the seas around the Okinawa Islands using coral larvae implantation tools: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Coral Okinawa (NPO)

Theory and practice for analyzing environmental global supply chains: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: National Institute for Environmental Studies Senior Researcher Keisuke Nansai

Establishment of a cell storage bank for East Asian/Eurasian rare birds: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Biological Resource Laboratory, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Takashi Kuwana

Regional networks for CO2 points: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Renewable Energy Promotion Association

Research on the environmental impact of mercury contamination from gold placer mining in Kalimantan, central Indonesia: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: School of Environmental Science, The University of Shiga Prefecture Professor Osamu Nagafuchi

LCA comparisons of biomass fuel and pulp in terms of regionality and scale: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Shizuoka University Faculty of Agriculture Mutsuo Kojima, Professor

NARAYAMA project- Protecting village forest in urban district = restoration and conservation activities: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Senior Natural College (community organization-Nara/Hitoto-shizennokai)

Research and awareness-raising activities regarding wetlands registered under the Ramsar Convention - the creation and careful use of 'swan' rice: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency of Japan (ERCA)

Maintaining the St. Paul High School model school forest and providing education on forest environments: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Forest Instructor Tokyo (FIT)

Carbon fixation and biomass production, conversion and transport through afforestation of arid land unsuited for food production: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Faculty of Science and Technology, Seikei University Professor Toshinori Kojima

Setting up shrubbery seed and seedling centers in the Gobi Desert region and building a sustainable ecological management system: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sekai no Sabaku wo Ryoku de Kakomu Kai

Conserving and restoring the environment around Lake Biwa and the Setagawa River: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Setagawa Preservation and Pastime Trust

Forest conservation through local participation in the Makwanpur District of Nepal: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: SOMNEED

Surveying and creating a network of regional rice terrace conservation organizations: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Tanada Network

Survey of useful biological resources within marginal arid land areas in North Africa: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Alliance for Research on North Africa (ARENA), University of Tsukuba Professor Hiroko Isoda

Research on resource management methods to sustain/increase abalone resources through a configuration of a marine product traceability system: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Fisheries-Maritime-Area Collaboration Division, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology Visiting Professor Hiroshi Yamakawa

Correlation analysis of actors and effective governance—towards establishing a short- to medium-term institutional framework for the international resolution of issues pertaining to climate change: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Department of Value and Decision Science, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology Associate Professor Norichika Kanie

Urban-rural blending strategy in Asian city suburbs based on the spatial scale of resource cycles: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: The University of Tokyo Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science Ai Hiramatsu, specially appointed assistant professor

Public participation based monitoring of marine POPs with beached plastic resin pellets: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology, Graduate School, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Professor Hideshige Takada

Repair work in protected ponds for Japanese rosy bitterling and conservation activities in adjacent Kori River water systems in the Takayasu area of Yao City, Osaka: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Nippon Baratanago Takayasu Kenkyukai

Establishing a network of divers to share information on sea turtles near Japan's coasts: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sea Turtle Association of Japan

Revising nature school instructor training course curriculums: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Environmental Education Forum (JEEF)

Woodland conservation and regeneration using mycorrhizal mushrooms: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Japan Kinoko Research Center Foundation

Restoration of the natural environments of ravine waters inhabited by shoals of rare Japanese Kirikuchi char: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Wetlands International Japan

Supporting top soil fertilization and tree planting in Malawi, southern Africa: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development (NICCO)

Residents' participation of natural forest restoration activities in the Aya Lucidophyllous Forest Project: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Nature Conservation Society of Japan

Public lecture series on sustainable environmental conservation for botanical gardens: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Association of Botanical Gardens

Creating a restoration model for Japanese coastal pine groves: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Greenery Research and Development Center

Creating a 'Japanese' forest management and administration model to contribute to a recycling-orientated society: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Forest Management Association of Japan Takashi Hayami, Chairman

Studies and educational activities pertaining to the building of frameworks related to the sustainability of bio fuel in the Asian region: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Biomass Industry & Society Network

Reforestation to recharge water sources in the 'water jug' prefecture: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Forest Gunma 21

Learning amongst nature: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Fundación Espacios Verdes (Foundation for Green Spaces - Argentinian NGO; recommended by Mitsui & Co. Americas BU)

Sustainability and risk management of northern subarctic wetlands having Pacific Salmon as a keystone species: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Faculty of Fisheries Science, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University Professor Masahide Kaeriyama

Development of technologies for the improvement of water quality and substratum of enclosed water bodies including lakes and marshes: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Machi-nami Ikuseikai

Establishing fruit orchards to support forest regeneration (Datong, Shanxi Province, China): Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Green Earth Network (GEN)

Raising conservation awareness to protect Miyagi Prefecture's abundant forests and natural environment: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Miyagi Prefecture Forest Instructors Association

Supporting the creation of land usage and water resource forest management plans to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of forests in northern Laos: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mekong Watch

Creating an instructor training program to encourage forest-building led by a diverse range of people: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Morizukuri Forum

Configuration of a land-sea interface environment toward mangrove forest/coral reef ecosystem preservation/restoration on Okinawa Island: Research grant; Grant year: FY2007 Research Grants
Organization name: Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University Associate Professor Yoshihisa Akamatsu

Learning forest building leadership skills (management plan creation) - creating a guidebook and training courses to cultivate coordinators for citizen-driven forest creation management plans: Activity grant; Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Yokohama Woodland Research Institute NORA