Japan’s Forestry Agency is teaming up with a conservation group to help preserve forest ecosystems.
The agency’s partnership with the Nature Conservation Society of Japan, the first agreement of its kind in the country, follows a dispute between them about logging of national forests in the Shiretoko National Park, Hokkaido, and around Mt Shirakemi.
The initiative will start in the autumn with the joint management of a 10,000ha national forest in Niiharumura. The society is to manage an area where golden eagles nest and plant beech forests to replace those already felled.
