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The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund

Introduction to Grant Projects

FY2019

Restoring and conserving by supporting the spread of Jussara palm (Euterpe edulis) agroforestry in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: VERSTA (NPO)

Developing an environmental learning program alongside university students for sustainability in the Lake Hachiro basin

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: Hachiro Project (NPO)

Considering measures to reduce marine waste by studying the urban Arakawa River

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: Arakawa River Clean-aid Forum (NPO)

Conducting an energy utilization learning program focused on renewable energy at Naruko Onsen

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: Spatto Naruko Onsen Natural Energy (NPO)

Establishing economic independence for indigenous people of the Amazon through beekeeping projects

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: Rainforest Foundation Japan (NPO)

Establishing a bio-carbonization system for local industrial waste and building an environmental improvement and carbon fixation system using biochar

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: Miyagi University of Education

Researching and raising awareness in relation to the popularization of renewable heat energy use, including biomass heat

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: Biomass Industrial Society Network (NPO)

Establishing a sustainable bamboo charcoal village in Myanmar

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: Association of Japan Myanmar Mutual Cooperation (NPO)

Improving sanitation in poor areas by shifting to urine-diverting sanitary toilet technology for human waste

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development

Creating a place where hikikomori can receive job training through the establishment of a wood fuel production and supply service that uses driftwood

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Grant year: FY2019 Activity Grants
Organization name: Toyama Prefectural University

FY2018

Beekeeping business with the goal of economic independence for Amazonian natives in Brazil

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Grant year: FY2018 Activity Grants
Organization name: Rainforest Foundation Japan (NPO)

Digging wells for a village and wild elephant sanctuary in Sabah, Malaysia, and talking with local people about conservation

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Grant year: FY2018 Activity Grants
Organization name: Borneo Conservation Trust Japan (NPO)

Resource rotation and regeneration of human connections, for the development of a symbiotic society. "Kids cafeterias on a regional platform"

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Grant year: FY2018 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Hotline Shinshu (NPO)

Initiatives to revitalize the Iitate village region

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Grant year: FY2018 Activity Grants
Organization name: Resurrection of Fukushima (NPO)

Supporting energy generation and the 'grow local, consume local' movement

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Grant year: FY2018 Activity Grants
Organization name: Renewable Energy Promotion Association (NPO)

Constructing a rainwater capture system to provide safe drinking water and sanitation

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Grant year: FY2018 Activity Grants
Organization name: Ikaw Ako (NPO)

Soso Rape Blossom Project: Putting a nuclear effected area at the forefront of clean energy and resource circulation

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Grant year: FY2018 Activity Grants
Organization name: Minami Soma Organization for Farmland Regeneration

FY2017

Regional education building through "Interregional Student Exchange" and "Nature Experience" programs

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Grant year: FY2017 Activity Grants
Organization name: Greenwood Nature Experience Education Center (NPO)

Project aimed at establishing economic independence for indigenous people via beekeeping

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Grant year: FY2017 Activity Grants
Organization name: Amazon Rainforest Foundation (NPO)

Village development project promoting coexistence between local residents and tigers

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Grant year: FY2017 Activity Grants
Organization name: World Wildlife Fund Japan

Creating the Yanagawa eel sanctuary where eels can coexist with children playing in the water

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Grant year: FY2017 Activity Grants
Organization name: SPERA forest, land, ocean - leading a generation (NPO)

Creation of ICT education system to areas without electricity with second hand products

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Grant year: FY2017 Activity Grants
Organization name: Class for Everyone (NPO)

Realization of environmental conservation activities carried out by residents based on the short tailed albatross model case

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Grant year: FY2017 Activity Grants
Organization name: Ogasawara Club (NPO)

Creation of community in cooperation with learning and labor-type tourism and rice paddy conservation in Shiraitodai area in Yamamoto town

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Grant year: FY2017 Activity Grants
Organization name: Citizen meeting for the activation and revival of rural towns

Building resilience and sustainability in the Cardamom Mountains watershed, Cambodia

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Grant year: FY2017 Activity Grants
Organization name: Conservation International (recommended by overseas office)

FY2016

Stop plastic waste from Arakawa before it goes into the sea! Measures to stop plastic waste

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: Arakawa Clean Aid Forum (NPO)

A study of regional diversity through "stories of the people" — Environmental education activities in Thailand and Laos.

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mekong Watch (NPO)

Environment revitalization and enlightenment activities in the Surin area of North-Eastern Thailand

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: OISCA

Biological research of medium and large mammals in low-lying mixed Dipterocarpaceae forest in the Kinabatangan River and Segama river basin of Borneo Island, Malaysia

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: Borneo Conservation Trust Japan (BCTJ) (NPO)

Sustainable regional development based on spiritual culture — Art and tourism connecting regions with the world

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: Wakayama University, Faculty of Tourism

Biodiversity conservation through fostering sustainable income generation for family farmers and traditional communities in the Madeira River-Basin, Southern Amazonas.

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: IDESAM — Institute for Conservation and Sustainable Development of Amazonas (recommended by overseas office)

Social development of Tangsi Jaya hamlet using renewable energy

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: Darma Persada University (recommended by overseas office)

Youth Capacity Building and Exchange Program toward Sustainable Development and Conservation of Ifugao Rice Terraces

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: UP Open University (recommended by overseas office)

Rejuvenation of degraded Forest

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: Indian Farm Forestry Development Cooperative Ltd (recommended by overseas office)

FY2015

Promotion of Matagi Project which aims to utilize wild animal hide and revitalize local areas

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Grant year: FY15/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Global Environmental Forum

Greenery project in Sahel region of West Africa used organic waste from the city for livestock

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Grant year: FY15/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Center for Africa Area Studies, Kyoto University

Creation of a recycling society based on the circulation of used soap

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Grant year: FY15/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Happy Steps

Cultivating human resources for managing sika deer in 10 years time

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Grant year: FY2015 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Yezo Deer Association

Creating a space for discussion and dialogue amongst young people — The choice of energy in 30 years' time —

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Grant year: FY15/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sophia University Institute for Studies of the Global Environment

The seed revival project

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Grant year: FY2015 Activity Grants
Organization name: Ikema Welfare Support Center (NPO)

Investigative research and raising awareness to ensure the sustainability of solid biomass resources

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Grant year: FY2015 Activity Grants
Organization name: Biomass Industrial Society Network (NPO)

Creating environmental conservation areas in Vietnam's Mekong Delta through collaboration between various stakeholders

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Grant year: FY15/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Seed to Table (NPO) - Connectiong people, nature and cultures

SUSTAINABILITY OF TURKISH STRAIT SYSTEM

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: Turkish Marine Environment Protection Association (recommended by overseas office)

Sustainable development of Messguina argan forest

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Grant year: FY2016 Activity Grants
Organization name: Association Ibn Al Baytar/AIB (recommended by overseas office)

Environmental conservation and restoration of the Goishi Coast in Ofunato, town of the game of Go

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Grant year: FY15/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kurashi to taishin kyougikai (The Council for Earthquake Resistance in Daily Life)

Using forest resources to rebuild livelihoods in Iitate, Fukushima

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Grant year: FY2015 Activity Grants
Organization name: Resurrection of Fukushima (Specified Nonprofit Organization)

FY2014

Animal-pathway's nationwide outreach

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: Animal-pathway & Wildlife Association (ApWA)

Iinashi river riverbed grass cultivation - hydrophilic, environmental conservation, livestock promotion and CO2 reduction business

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: Iinashi River Regeneration Net

Establishing a long-term conservation framework for co-existing with green sea turtles and their breeding grounds on the Ogasawara Islands

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: Everlasting Nature of Asia (NPO)

Using film to communicate bahan(horse-logging), an ancient 'new' forestry technique

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kurikoma Kogen Natural Education and Earth Living Institute (NPO)

Angkor's water environment regeneration project

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: International Development Center of Japan

Human resources development project for conserving future biodiversity: practical environmental education to get closer to nature

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Grant year: FY14/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Association for Nature Restoration and Conservation, Japan (NPO)

A foundation for revitalizing Ariake Sea mudflats: linking citizens, high schools and universities

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: SPERA Mori Sato Umi - Cultivating an Era (NPO)

Social development of Seriwe hamlet using renewable energy

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Grant year: FY15/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Darma Persada University (UNSADA) (recommended by overseas office)

Human resource development activities and continued conservation of terraced rice fields through the "Terrace rice fields Eco-Gakuen Agricultural Course"

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Grant year: FY14/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Lovers of terraced paddy fields

Measuring radiation in areas affected by nuclear disaster

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Grant year: FY14/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Association to Help Chernobyl, Chubu-District, Japan

Promoting nature conservation and environmental education at Tenjinzaki

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: Caring for Tenjinzaki Foundation

The Tohoku Pilgrimage Project

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Grant year: FY14/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Tohoku Pilgrimage Project

Development of class programs incorporating the Iriomote cat

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund

Activities to foster naturalists and revive the ecosystem of cities through insects

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Grant year: FY14/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan's Henri Fabre Institute

Supporting environmentally-friendly businesses that provide sustainably increased revenues for Tasiman

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: Health Assistance and Neighbourhood Development Support Inc. (HANDS)

Experimental project by senior high school students uses hot springs as geothermic resource

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Grant year: FY14/3 Research Grants
Organization name: Bridge for Fukushima

Camps for providing children from disaster areas with a deeper connection to nature

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Grant year: FY2014 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sendai University Department of Sports Science

Project to increase recycled energy by using thinned timber for firewood

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Grant year: FY14/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Firewood Association

Bee-hive fence as resolution for human-elephant conflict and local community livelihoods improvement in Masai Mara, Kenya

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Grant year: FY15/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mara Conservancy (recommended by overseas office)

FY2013

Creating the foundations for a stable supply of local seedlings for revegetating disaster areas

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: Ishinomaki Kankyo Net

Coastal Forest Regeneration Project 10-Year Plan (broad-leaved tree division)

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement-International (OISCA)

Environmental Education & Social Contribution Tourism Promotion Project - Creating a sustainable cohesive society in cities and islands

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: Ojika Island Tourism Association

Develop model standard regions for environmental education towards creating a low carbon society

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kiko Network

Building a nature observation trail

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Society to Conserve Beeches & Waters of ZAO

Project to create employment using Yonesaki apples in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: SAVE TAKATA (NPO)

SUSTAINABLE MARINE LIFE and ECOSYSTEM

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Grant year: FY14/3 Activity Grants
Organization name: Turkish Marine Environment Protection Association (recommended by overseas office)

Expansion of seedling facilities and establishment of an increased production structure to supply seedlings as necessary for tree planting in disaster areas

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Association for Fostering a Green Globe

Technical assistance for drip-fed hydroponic cultivation that has a low environmental impact for residents of disaster areas

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: City Farm Village Exchange Promotion Center (NPO)

Public awareness and environmental education on sarus cranes and their habitats in Cambodia

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Environmental Education Forum (JEEF)

Tree-centered environmental conservation efforts in Laos

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Habitat Association

Designation of sea areas in far-east Russia as critical habitats for seabirds and steps for conservation

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: BirdLife International Asia Division

Enabling sustainable fishing in Sri Lanka's Jaffna District through business introducing marine farming

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO PARCIC

PLANT, GROW, GIVE

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mercy Home for Children (recommended by overseas office)

The Green Tohoku Genki Program

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Green Tohoku Genki Program Executive Committee

Creation of a sustainable society through restoration of an ecological spirit culture: Natural faith in Iitate Village, Soma District, Fukushima Prefecture

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Grant year: FY2013 Activity Grants
Organization name: Wakayama University, Tourism Department

FY2012

Island travel brand building business for a sustainable tourism model

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Ama Town Tourism Association

Regeneration of endangered plant monochoria korsakowii and biotope in disaster-affected areas

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Iwate Prefectural University Faculty of Policy Studies

Training 200 people to be forestry workers

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Iwate Reforestation Study Group

The recovery of endangered species of aquatic plants at the Inbanuma wetlands and learning through experiencing the environment

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Inbanuma Yasai Ikada no Kai (Inba Swamp Vegetable Raft Association)

Rebuilding communities in disaster areas through mosaic art by people with disabilities

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Eco Mosaic (NPO)

Survey on damage to old houses in the Kesen District and reconstruction workshop

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Network Construction System (NCS)

Coastal forest recovery project 10-year plan (hardwood nursery department)

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: OISCA

Regional Recovery Project initiated by the Kamaishi Toubu Fishery Cooperative

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Citizens' Council Initiated by the Kamaishi Toubu Fishery Cooperative

Establishment of the "Machi no Terakoya" (child learning center) for children to research and study the use of solar energy

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kankyou 21 no Kai

Formulation of the Environmental NPO Empowerment Strategy 2020

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Environment and Civilization 21 (NPO)

Contributing domestic wood products and offering the LEAF environmental learning program

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Green Santa Foundation (NPO)

Decontamination of paddy fields in the Shimooguni district of Fukushima Prefecture

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Renewable Energy Promotion Association

Side project for disaster-stricken areas: Objective to create local jobs and establish regional communities

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sanga Iwate

Establishment of a nationwide common database of food radiation measurements by citizens

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Citizens' Radioactivity Measuring Section (CRMS) (NPO)

Project for promotion of conversion from environmental NPOs to certified NPO corporations

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Coalition for Legislation to Support Citizens' Organizations

Japanese Cherry Tree Plantation in City Parks of Northeast Ohio

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japanese Association of Northeast Ohio (JANO) (recommended by overseas office)

Preservation of cherry trees on the Negawa Green Tract

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Jushu Green Network

Slow Village Children's Kingdom Project

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Society for Women's Education and Leadership (NPO)

Improvement and expansion of existing nursery facilities to supply seedlings for reforestation of devastated areas, including coastal levees

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Green Globe (Chikyuu no Midori o Sodateru-kai)

Coral reef revitalization project in the Chibishi Area of Kerama Islands, Okinawa

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Churami Shinkokai

Great Purple Emperor Butterfly Forest Creation Project to link people, nature, and communities

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Tsukuba Environment Forum (NPO)

Restoration of industrial production and living centered around the revival of the Ogatsu stone industry

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Tohoku Institute of Technology, Faculty of Life Design, Department of Life Design for Safety and Amenity

Cherry tree conservation activities, raising cherry tree seedling, and creation of cherry tree viewing sites in areas affected by tsunamis

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Natori Tourism Association

Opening the way for salmon on the dried-out Shinano River and Chikumagawa River

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Niigata Waterside Association (NPO)

Reconstructing homes and living in harmony with nature on high ground transfer sites in the Shishiori Region of Kesennuma

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan International Volunteer Center (NPO)

Clarification of the migratory routes taken by the little tern (Sterna albifrons) in Asia and Oceania and education about their protection

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japanese Society for Preservation of Birds

Important Bird and Biodiversity Area program in South Africa: IBA network and inventory formulation

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: BirdLife South Africa (recommended by overseas office)

Five action plans for a prefecture that is a source of water

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Forest Gunma 21

Experiments and practical activities aimed at life and industrial revitalization in Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Resurrection of Fukushima (NPO)

Assistance with the construction, operation, and planning of marine product processing centers and exchange facilities for the reconstruction of fishing villages

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Reconstruction and Town Building Research Institute

Removal and cleaning of underwater debris

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Blue Support Iwate

Revival of traditional crafts and local specialties in Otsuchichou, and formation of new regional communities

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Machi Tsukuri Gurutto Otsuchi (NPO)

Establishment of sustainable regional models through the employment of disabled persons and bamboo forest development

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Grant year: FY2012 Activity Grants
Organization name: Yui no Kokoro (NPO)

FY2011

Project to support the residents of temporary housing, focusing on the use and recovery of farm fields that have been lying fallow

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Center for Independent Living Iwaki

The sustainable local community model "Visualization" project

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Iwate Kodomo Kankyou Kenkyuusho

Establishing a system for recycling wood debris and building a wood biomass society in order to revive forest-related industry in Iwate Prefecture coastal areas

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Iwate University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Environmental Sciences for Sustainability

Setting up educational programs about post-3.11 energy and information dissemination through teaching in disaster-affected areas

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Iwate University

Helping the Earth Project

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Echigo Tsumari Satoyama Collaborative Organization

Rebuilding a library of historical fishing industry records in Kesennuma Oshima

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kanagawa University Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture

The Connection and Human Warmth Project

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP)

Production of Miyagi disaster support site, and information transmission

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Tohoku Chamber of Enviroment

Research into and efforts to achieve energy self-sufficiency in Ama-chou

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sustainable Energy Forum of Japan

Restoring local seas along the Minamisanriku coastline following the disaster

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: E-TEC (Environment, Ecology, Economy)

Development and support activities for key local people as the torchbearers of the Tohoku Reconstruction

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century

Recovery project support activities for the promotion of a sustainable and secure work and living environment for residents of the Ryouishi area, in Kamaishi

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Crisis and Environment Policy Institute (CeMI)

Proving fast-growing trees (willow) can be used to produce woody biomass and establishing a supply structure for cuttings

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kyoto Prefectural University Graduate School of Life And Environmental Sciences Division of Applied Life Sciences

Infrastructure venture for the creation of a sustainable regional network by children in rural districts, such as agricultural, mountain and fishing villages.

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Greenwood Interaction with Nature Education Center

Investigating damage caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake to important wetlands on the Tohoku Pacific coast

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: National Parks Association of Japan

Project to draw up and implement a resident-driven Sakaemura and model settlement reconstruction vision and plan

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sakaemura Network

Development and utilization of woodlands in urban areas

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Senior Nature College (NPO), Nara People and Nature Association

Research and planting activities to restore coastal forests

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sendai Shinrinkyousei-kai

Joint camp for children from the affected areas and those in the Metropolitan region. Ties and ties that connect

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sendai University, Physical Education Department, Faculty of Sports Science Sports management Course, Outdoor Activities Research Group

Reconstruction support "genki teacher project- assemble! Learning Science through the sports science department."

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Real Science Education Institute

Recovery of the environments of abandoned eel pond sites at the edge of Lake Hamanako and the use of discharge facilities for a new type of aquaculture

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Chiiki seibutsu Shigen Kenkyuujo

Supporting the areas devastated by the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Association to Help Chernobyl, Chubu District, Japan

Utilization of reusable tableware in disaster zones, and development of a regional recycling oriented model

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Global Environmental Forum

Creation of the Saving the Taste of Tohoku website and information dissemination by graduate student volunteers: Supporting the reconstruction of Iwate Sanriku through the ongoing communication to Japan and world of information required for supporting companies in the disaster area

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Graduate Program in Sustainability Sciences, Reconstruction Support Group

Public infrastructure and energy systems in regions affected by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake in Tohoku - a model plan for the reconstruction of 100 homes

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Tohoku University of Art and Design Department of Architecture and Environmental Design

Creation of Earthquake Proof Artificial Ground Based on the Reuse of Waste Timber and Sludge Generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Graduate School of Environmental Sciences, Tohoku University

Village revitalisation project to coexist with nature in disaster affected areas in the Sanriku coast

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Tono Magokoro Net NPO

Mini rice field activities with citizen participation aimed at coexistence with rare plants and animals in Nakaikemi-Shicchi Wetland

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Nakaikemi Net (NPO)

Reconstruction support activities aimed at an environmental conservationist-type regional rejuvenation.

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Faculty of Tourism and Environmental Studies, Nagano University.

Minamisanriku fishing ground survey

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Conference of Underwater Education (JCUE)

A project for bringing Ogijima daffodils to Matsushima, Tohoku

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO High Follow Station

The Minami-Sanriku Coastal Area brant is a symbol of seaweed bed regeneration! Clues to understand fishing zone regeneration from monitoring the distribution of brent geese after the earthquake

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Miyagi Prefectural Izunuma-Uchinuma Environmental Foundation

Bringing the environment and fulfillment to the next generation through the mountainside lifestyle

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Miyagi Prefecture Forest Instructors Association

Projects to deploy community restoration promotion teams and build a system of support

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Miyagi University School of Project Design Department of Business and Project Planning

Prefectural cooperation for medical support activities throughout Miyagi Prefecture for patients suffering from nutritional related illness in disaster afflicted areas

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Miyagi University, School of Project Design, Department of Business and Project Planning

Development and support activities for reconstruction community architects conducting fishery reconstruction assistance in Tohoku

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Miyagi University, Faculty of Project Design, Department of Design Information

Regeneration of Michinoku culture and traditions: carrying on historical heritage

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Miyagi Shiryou Net (Network for Preserving Historical Materials)

Regenerating coastal forest barriers as 'citizen-cared' environments

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sendai 'City of Trees' National Trust

Regeneration of the natural environment abruptly changed by an earthquake disaster, and the building of the environmental education field

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mori wa Umi no Koibito

Clearing debris and monitoring the ecological environment in Mone Bay

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mori wa Umi no Koibito

Efforts to recover the breeding grounds of the albatross on the Ogasawara Islands and their long-term preservation

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Yamashina Institute for Ornithology

Yuukinosato (Organic Village) Towa Village Regeneration and Disaster Restoration Program

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Council for the Creation of the Yuukinosato Towa Hometown

Environmental assessment project supporting disaster area reconstruction

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Grant year: FY2011 Activity Grants
Organization name: Rakuno Gakuen University Department of Vetinary Medicine, Department of Sustainable Agriculture, and Department of Environmental and Symbiotic Science

FY2010

Proving the feasability of bamboo as an organic fertilizer by using it to cultivate rapeseed, advancing the Nanohana Project

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Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Ine Oasa (recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Chugoku Office)

Aso flower field regeneration project Step II ~ Regeneration of biodiversity rich grasslands by felling neglected planted forests

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Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Aso flower field association

Collaboration between private businesses and NPOs to create an "adopt" system for management of the Arakawa River

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Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Arakawa Clean Aid Forum

Restoring primary forest in the area around Yguazu Lake

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Asociación Japonesa de Yguazú (Paraguayan NGO - recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Americas BU)

Environmental education in Malaysia through the Sabah 3R Promotion Project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Eco-Vision Okinawa (EVO)

Satoyama regeneration in rural areas of Cambodia and the sustainable use of natural resources

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Institute of Environmental Rehabilitation and Conservation (ERECON)

Environmental security training for agricultural work and unused agrochemical collection support project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Advanced Chemicals Master Data System for Educational and Scientific Institutions (ACSES)

Thoughts on marine waste and the river basin environment, from China to Shikoku "Jewels from around the world — polishing the Seto Inland Sea"

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Green Partner Okayama, NPO

Restoring beech forests to the Zao wilderness

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Society to Conserve Beeches & Water of Zao (recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Tohoku Office)

Integrate the values of biological diversity into the Thailand's natural resources administration activities

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Seub Nakhasathien Foundation (recommended by overseas office)

A study into potential natural vegetation and creating an action plan for planting suitable trees in Yunnan Province

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Chikyu no Ryoku wo Sodateru-Kai

Creating a re-use and charity system for unneeded items in Nagoya

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Chubu Recycle Citizens' Organization

Veterinary health care with the aim of restoring endangered Tsushima leopard cats to the wild

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Conservation & Animal Welfare Trust (CAW Trust)

Rethinking environmental improvement of the ocean through community-based "experience learning" using traditional laver (a type of seaweed) technique.

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: "Tomoni-hamawo-tsukuru-kai" association

Studying forest ecosystems and considering ways to use the biodiversity of the eco-island of Sado for forest eco-tourism

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Niigata University Forest, Field Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University (recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Niigata Office)

Conserving forest water systems in the Takayasu no Sato area of Yao, Osaka, and developing simple biotopes to naturally regenerate Japanese rosy bitterling populations

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Nippon Baratanago Takayasu Research Group

Identifying green turtle sanctuaries

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sea Turtle Association of Japan

Improving the livelihoods of farming families through agriculture that supports the ecosytem (CLEAN)

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan International Volunteer Center

Designing and creating goods that will provide children with an understanding of ecosystems, implementing a dispatch educational program, and analysing its results

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Wild Bird Society of Japan Fukuoka Branch (recommended by Mitsui & Co. Kyushu Office)

Surveying and raising awareness of collaborative conservation initiatives by NPOs and companies

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Partnership Support Center (recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Chubu Office)

The strategic ytilization plan of Mt. Fuji research station for protection of global atmospheric environment: Partial repurposing of Mt. Fuji Research Station as 'East Asia High Altitude Atmospheric Chemistry Observation Base'

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Specified Nonprofit Organization, Mount Fuji Research Station (former Valid Utilization of Mt. Fuji Weather Station)

A social engagement project providing environmental education through theater workshops

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Fringe Theater Project (FTP)

Love Earth Clean Up In Hokkaido

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Hokkaido Environmental Community Network, NPO, Mitsui & Co Hokkaido branch office recommendation)

A project to create a bridge for orangutans in Borneo, alongside Japanese zoos

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Borneo Conservation Trust Japan

Tohoku biodiversity network and assembly

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2010 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mizunet

FY2009

The Asaza Project - using the environment to revitalize regional communities

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Asaza Fund

Regional improvement project in Bangladesh

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: AloAsha Project Japan

A 'power-up' strategy for forest restoration and conservation

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Iwate Reforestation Study Group

Advancing the integration of desert tree-planting activities with methods to restore grasslands, such as livestock population management

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mongolian University of Life Sciences School of Ecology, Technology and Development (recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Asia Pacific BU)

Developing and encouraging the use of educational tools for selecting sustainable marine products - Raising awareness among consumers and the restaurant industry

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Ehime University (Sustainable Seafood Research Council)

Cultivating medicinal herbs to green desert and eradicate poverty in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Organization for Industrial Spiritual and Cultural Advancement International (OISCA)

Creating activities in rural woodland and coastal areas on the Noto Peninsula with the aim of sustainable regional development

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kanazawa University Center for Regional Collaboration Satoyama Satoumi Project

Iki iki project for living beings and the community-Environmental Protection activities in the Izunuma ecosystem

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: E-TEC

Getting citizens involved with the environment by developing 'animal pathway' wildlife road crossings for tree-based animals

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP)

Development and trial of educational program "Project Climate" to prevent global warming

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: KIKOU-NETWORK (Climate Network)

Save endangered Japanese eight-barbel loaches, a symbol of pure water, and other aquatic organisms!

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Groundwork Mishima

Environmental recovery through tree planting and restoring traditional water control systems in arid regions of Rajasthan, India

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Gram Bharati Samiti (Society for Rural Development/Indian NGO - recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Asia Pacific BU)

An eco-project visualizing the educational capabilities contributing to environmental preservation inherent to living in remote mountain villages

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: GreenWood Nature Experience Education Centre

The Angkor Forest Regeneration Support Project - tree planting initiatives for elementary schools and creating future environmental education and conservation leaders

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: International Development Center of Japan (IDCJ)

Empirical development of sustainable social sytstems through environmental learning

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Learning and Ecological Activities Foundation for Children

The Herasou Shopping Project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Gomi-Japan

Creating low-carbon, energy self-sufficient communities in order to conserve the ecosystems and biodiversity of giant panda sanctuaries in Sichuan Province, China

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF China / Chinese NGO - recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Asia Pacific BU)

Kumejima Support Project - Developing and promoting Nansei island biodiversity conservation models that revitalize the region

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Japan

The Narodychi Restoration and Nanohana Project - aiming to restore the region by purifying irradiated soil and facilitating bioenergy use

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Association to Help Chernobyl, Chubu-District, Japan

Understanding and protecting forest biodiversity in the Ussuri Taiga - a 'Taiga Forest Forum' including locals, NPOs and corporations

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Global Environmental Forum (GEF)

Coral reef restoration project for the Chibishi area off Okinawa's Kerama Islands

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Churaumi Shinkokai

Business to promote public awareness and environmental education regarding East Asia atomospheric pollution, and acid rain problems

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Environmental Sanitation Center/Asia Center for Air Pollution Research (ACAP)

Publishing the IBA White Paper 2010, and distributing leaflets and holding symposiums to promote IBA

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Wild Bird Society of Japan

Daguma Mountain Forest Restoration Project - forests where native peoples can live

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Health, Assistance and Neighbourhood Development Support Inc. (HANDS)

Creating environment theatre' - Kinki development project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Fringe Theater Project

Science and environmental education collaboration project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Whole Earth Institute

Creating environmental tourism in the Soya region of Wakkanai (Soya ESD Project)

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Hokkaido Environment Foundation

Animal Direct Position System (ADPS) Project 2010

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Shiretoko Higuma Information Centre

Implementing Urban Woodcutter Training Courses and a water source forest program

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mori no Kaze

Restoring the Brazilian Amazon's riverside forests through agroforestry and creating an industrial-academic-government network

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2009 Activity Grants
Organization name: Wildlife Research Society

FY2008

Sustainable development for Ethiopian farming villages using indigenous ensete

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Asia to Africa wo Tsunagu-Kai (AAJE)

Preserving a thousand year history of Aso's greenland through volunteer activities to support burning fields.

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Aso Green Stock Foundation

Creating and implementing a community-based energy and environmental education program that leverages Iwate's unique qualities

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Iwate University

Conserving the Ukishimagahara wetlands in Numazu, at the foot of Mt. Fuji, which are a habitat for category IB endangered species such as lysimachia

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: NPO Ukishimanuma Shizen Satozukuri no Kai

Sustainable rainwater project to secure safe drinking water

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: People for Rainwater

Yume Wakame Workshop

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Association for Shore Environment Creation

Conserving endangered Hawksbill sea turtles in Indonesia's Java Sea

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Everlasting Nature of Asia (ELNA)

Linking cities and farming villages to create new places - the "Terraced Rice Field school"

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kamiechigo Yamazato Fun Club

Coppicing with the Kawasaki-Sendai Wood Stove Association and other resource usage

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kawasaki-machi no Shigen wo Ikasu-Kai

Creating and discussing a renewable energy policy platform

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies

Working with NPOs, companies, and academics to create a roadmap for an 'environmentally advanced society'

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century

The Living with Nature Project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Cansya

Monitoring plant and animal life in Kiritappu Wetland

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kiritappu Wetland National Trust

Planting Vernicia to reduce CO2, mitigate desertification, and conserve the environment

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Joint Grass Roots Fukuoka (JGRF)

Industry-government-academia collaboration to form an environmental research and education fieldwork network in Cambodia

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: United Nations University

Activities to support the improving skills of practical managers for the conservation of traditional architecture

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kozai Bunka No Kai

Saga Castle Moat Lotus Restoration Project - a pioneering citizen-academia-government collaboration to remove invasive species and conserve ecosystems

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Saga University Coastal Bioenvironment Center

Business focused on strengthening environmental NPO advocacy

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Coalition for Legislation to Support Citizens' Organizations

Forest and Life Houses Project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Friends Society for Kenyan Children (FRISKC)

Consensus building project for regional forest managent by local study

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Specified non-profit organization, Forest Restoration Network, Hokkaido

Developing tools to raise awareness of foreign turtle species

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Seitai Koubou

Field survey on the disposal of scrap vehicles in the Pacific Island States — The situation of disposing scrap vehicles in Fiji

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Automotive Recyclers Association

Creating a rational platform for conserving 'Crop-Mal' marginal drylands

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and Protection of Natural Habitats (TEMA/Turkish NGO - recommended by the Mitsui & Co. EMEA BU)

Constructing a green technology database in order to create resource-recycling communities in developing countries

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC)

Activities to strengthen and disseminate reusable tableware and its network

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Global Environmental Forum

Implementing a model for the restoration and regular management of riverside nature spots along the Tsurumi and Tsunashima Rivers

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Tsurumi River Basin Networking (TR Net)

Encouraging Niigata salmon upstream as far as Nagano (Ueda, Matsumoto)

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Niigata Mizubenokai

Improving quality of life in Bangladeshi farming villages through water and sanitation initiatives

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Japan Association of Drainage and Environment

Conserving endangered butterflies

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Butterfly Conservation Society (JBCS)

Environmental education using Japanese giant salamanders as symbols to teach the importance of river and forest ecosystems

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Hanzaki Institute of Japan

Conserving endangered eastern marsh harriers and wetland biodiversity

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Wild Bird Society of Japan

Holding public round-table conferences on sustainable biomass resource usage and developing a national movement

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Biomass Industrial Society Network (BIN)

Expanding practical environmental educational activities in Vietnam and pursuing business to establish networks with stakeholders

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Bridge Asia Japan

Environmental drama project development for the Kinki region

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Fringe Theatre Project

The Shimoutsu-Gaku Japanese Horse-Chestnut Project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: N.P.O. Frontier Association

Investigating the biological and chemical impact of oil development on coral reefs in Los Roques National Park

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Fundación de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Universidad Simón Bolívar (FUNINDES-USB) (Venezuelan NGO) (recommended by overseas office)

Footpaths for realizing a sustainable society

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Midori no Yubi

The Home-Grown Trees for Creating Life Forests Movement

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Forest'n People Project Organization

Reintroducing short-tailed albatrosses to the Mukojima Group in the Ogasawara Islands

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Yamashina Insititute for Ornithology

Creating a river with a welcoming atmosphere and protecting Lake Biwa

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Yanamune River Basin Tourist Boat

Reconstruction of a data search website for citizens' efficient use of PRTR data

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Toxic Watch Network

Rain Maker Project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Yokohama Art Project

Developing sustainable, environmentally friendly communities - a project for reducing and responding to global warming rooted in the region

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Raks Thai Foundation (Thai NGO - recommended by the Mitsui & Co. Asia Pacific BU)

Conserving the natural environment of Boldoga Lake, Moratuwa, through the efficient use of sawdust being disposed of as industrial waste

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2008 Activity Grants
Organization name: Rakuno Gakuen University

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

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

Regional networks for CO2 points

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2007 Activity Grants
Organization name: Renewable Energy Promotion Association

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

FY2006

Establishment of a biological purification system

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Inba Yasai Ikada no Kai

Project for the establishment of a Kanto Tourism University

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Egao Tsunagete

Conservation of the natural environment and loggerhead turtles of Omotehama coastline

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Omotehama Network

Establishment of "Satoyama Satomi Nature School," Noto Peninsula

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kanazawa University Center for Regional Collaboration Satoyama Project (draft participation by Mitsui & Co. Hokuriku Branch)

Construction an environmental conservation for Lake Biwa using surveys and networking

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kino-Eco

Development of preventive techniques for non-native turtle species harmful to ecosystems

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Eco Works

Research on the chemical environment of wildlife on coral reefs in the Ryukyu Islands and public awareness activities

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Japan

Integrated research areas for exploring environmental sustainability in arid regions (DESIRE)

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats (recommended by overseas office)

The validation and popularization of "Children's Regional Inspections" as a tool within compulsory education to tackle climate change

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Chiiki Junkan Kenkyusho

Mississippi River, from Headwaters to Bay Campaign

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: National Audubon Society (recommended by overseas office)

Research to improve the habitat of kirikuchi char, the world's southernmost salvelinus char population

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Wetlands International Japan

Developing citizen-participation methods for researching the connection between people and nature and building a database

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Nature Conservation Society of Japan (NACS-J)

Fostering of leaders with new concepts and forest revitalization through ties with citizens and foresters

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Forest Management Association of Japan

Conservation and reforestation of the Okutama forests that serve as water catchment forests in Tokyo

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2006 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mitsui Volunteer Network Center

FY2005

Building a watershed management model with the Asaza regional revitalization project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Asaza Fund

Attitude survey into SMEs environmental and corporate social responsibility in Fukuoka Prefecture

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: The research society for environmental systems management

Excavating Japan's traditional wisdom to help formulate a sustainable society, research towards its international contribution

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century

Shigetomi Beach Consortium Project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kusunoki Shizenkan

Protecting and maintaining forests, rivers and coastlines

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Kochi Prefecture Department of Culture and Environment, Bureau of Ecology (with participation from the Mitsui & Co. Shikoku Branch)

Training courses for the preservation and management of traditional architecture

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Association for Preparing Bank of Reusing Timber

The Japanese translation and distribution of revised sustainability report guidelines

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sustainability Forum Japan

Holding of a community investment study meet and advising on business models

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Japan Sustainable Investment Forum

Broad-leafed tree seed bed maintenance project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Shirakami Mountain Preservation Society

Over 3 years 30,000 pot seedlings to be grown and planted

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Association for Fostering a Green Globe

Preserving seagrass beds that are green sea turtle feeding sites

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Sea Turtle Association of Japan

Free-flowing communication project

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Be Good Café

Creation of the Mt. Fuji Environmental Garbage Map

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Fujisan Club

Environmental reforestation using bio blocks

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: Mizukankyo Hokkaido

Research and construction of a conservation network for preservation of Japanese wetland environments: transmissions from Ramsar Convention registered wetland areas and Lake Izunuma-Uchinuma

Activity grant

Grant year: FY2005 Activity Grants
Organization name: The Miyagi Prefectural Izunuma-Uchinuma Environmental Foundation