As “living in symbiosis with nature” is one of the three priorities of the Nichirei Group’s Environmental Policy, the Group is committed to environmental conservation activities. Within its business activities, the Group actively procures sustainable materials and processed items, builds recycling systems in collaboration with business partners and local communities, and disseminates information and conducts activities for biodiversity conservation and environmental awareness raising at worksites and suppliers.
The initiatives are reported by each operating company’s Environmental Protection Committee and by the Group Environmental Protection Committee, which meets twice a year. The environmental protection policies and strategies of the entire Group are then determined based on the content and progress of these initiatives. Initiatives for biodiversity are carried out based on the formulated plans.

Collaboration with WWF Indonesia and WWF Japan Promoting Biodiversity Conservation in North Kalimantan through the More Than Decade-long Forest of Life Project

In the province of North Kalimantan, on the Indonesian island of Borneo, the natural environment is facing destruction from the expansion of plantations, afforestation, and shrimp farming. The rapid increase in the number of shrimp farms in coastal areas has led to the successive felling of forests and mangroves, and the rapid environmental changes are threatening valuable wildlife species with extinction.
In 2006, responding to concerns over the loss of mangroves in North Kalimantan, Nichirei Fresh initiated the Forest of Life Project in cooperation with its local supplier, PT. Mustika Minanusa Aurora (MMA) and the city of Tarakan, on Tarakan Island. The project assists in planting efforts and biodiversity conservation, by selling shrimp cultivated traditionally without using formula feed or electricity, and donating a portion of the proceeds to MMA’s Mangrove Foundation. In partnership with WWF Indonesia and WWF Japan, Nichirei Fresh is currently promoting activities improving aquaculture as part of the WWF North Kalimantan Sea and Forest Conservation Project. Over a 10-year period, trees have been planted across an area stretching 302 hectares in an effort to restore mangrove forests. This has resulted in an increase in wildlife, including small birds, crabs and small fish, and even proboscis monkeys introduced from outside the region have begun breeding naturally.

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Some Sales Proceeds Support Forest Preservation Nichirei Foods: Good for Lunches! Good for the Forest! Program

Nichirei’s CSR activities include the purchase of forest credits to support forest preservation activities.
　In gratitude for the earth’s abundance, which provides the ingredients for its products, Nichirei Foods runs a program to protect and develop forests. As of March of 2014, part of the proceeds of the program—called Good for Lunches! Good for the forest!—go for the purchase of CO₂ credits.

Fukushima: Environmental Research and Protection, Conserving Biodiversity

Nichirei owns land near Lake Hibara in Fukushima Prefectureʼs Urabandai region. The Company supports research on the natural environment in the surrounding areas and environmental and biodiversity conservation based on that research.
Following the 1888 eruption of Mount Bandai, all vegetation disappeared from the Urabandai area, but more than 130 years on, one can see vegetation returning: red pine forests, white willows, reeded wetlands, and aquatic plant clusters in marshlands.
The red pine forests, planted by people who want to see the return of greenery, continue to spread.
But since the Companyʼs land remains unforested, it provides a valuable area for observing the transition of virgin nature.
Nichirei has supported the research activities—carried out since FY2012 in the Urabandai area—by the Support Division for Projects in Natural Symbiosis and Regeneration at Center for Practical and Project-Based Learning, Graduate School of Symbiotic Systems Science and Technology, Fukushima University.
In FY2020 (ended in March, 2020), we supported an investigation of insect fauna inhabiting reed marshes in Urabandai area Nichirei-owned land, as well as a study into the diversity of plant species conducted with the goal of publishing a book on Urabandai flora.

https://www.nichirei.co.jp/english/csr/environment/action/office