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Internet address http://www.honda.co.jp/philanthropy/green.html (Japanese only) |
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1.Support Reforestation Activities in Japan
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Honda has been supporting and participating in a reforestation project titled "Riverhead Forest (Tone River) Revitalization Project by Volunteers." This event for the conservation and revitalization of nature through afforestation is held by the CCC Creative Plant's Gunma Project at the source of the Tone River and in the upper reaches of the Minakami-Naramata Dam.
In fiscal 2001, a total of 49 Honda employees participated as volunteers in the thinning out* of alders in June and in the planting of alders in October. The alders could not actually be thinned out in June because of rain, and instead the participants learned about the trees in the forest. Our employees will continue to participate as volunteers in thinning out and planting trees to contribute to the protection of natural ecosystems through reforestation activities.
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Thinning out: to fell trees except those to be cultivated. |
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2.Plans for the Reforestation of Deserts in China-the "Joyful Forest"Project
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Joyful Forest |
The "Green Renaissance Office" supports the "Desert Afforestation Volunteers' Association," an NPO that carries out a model afforestation and agricultural project that contributes to preventing desertification through sand-arresting afforestation in the Horchin Desert in the Autonomous Region of Mongolia in the People's Republic of China. The Office started its "Joyful Forest Project" as a joint project with the Desert Afforestation Volunteers' Association and the local communities in fiscal 2000.
In fiscal 2001, the second volunteer afforestation project took place from May 19 to 26. (The third project, which were scheduled for September 2001, was canceled because of the terrorist attack in the U.S.) A total of 10,881 trees including poplars, pine, acacia and elms were planted by local citizens as well as by volunteers from Japan. |
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3.Eco Wagon
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The Eco Wagon event is a program mainly intended for children to experience and study nature and organized with the cooperation of NPOs. In fiscal 2001, more than 9,300 people took part in the program. The reactions of teachers and elementary school pupils showed that the program was fully capable of meeting the needs of the comprehensive study class started at elementary schools in Japan in fiscal 2002.
In fiscal 2001, as the second step in the Eco Wagon program, an "Eco Wagon Expeditionary Party" was held to provide participants with the opportunity to be in contact with nature in different seasons. The tour was held three times in Hello Woods within Twin Ring Motegi in spring, summer, and fall. |
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| Eco Wagon Expeditionary Party |
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Participants in the Eco Wagon |
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