Environmental Conservation Activities

Forest Conservation Activities

The Kawasaki Group undertakes forest conservation activities in cooperation with NPO Academy of Natural Environment in Machida City, Tokyo and NPO Hyogo Mori no Club and NPO Kami Forestry Research Club in Ono City and Taka Town, Hyogo. Employees and their families actively engage in these activities for the protection of forests, which serve as the habitats for a wide range of living organisms.

In fiscal 2020, we became a participant in the Tokyo Green Ship Action, with employees and their families continuing to take part in forest conservation activities (including clearing undergrowth) in Machida City under this campaign.

Since December 2008, we have implemented activities as participants in a Hyogo prefectural corporate forest restoration project. These activities began in Taka Town and, with the expansion to include Ono City from fiscal 2020, employees and their families can now get involved in forest conservation activities (tree trimming, clearing undergrowth, and tree planting) in two locations.

Initiatives toward Registration of Nationally Certified Sustainably Managed Natural Sites

Based on the Kawasaki Group Policy on Biodiversity, the Kawasaki Group recognizes that the Group’s business activities and value chain have an impact on biodiversity. At the same time, the Group is undertaking initiatives to address the societal challenge of maintaining and restoring biodiversity toward the goal of realizing a society that coexists in harmony with nature, which will form the foundation of a sustainable society. Specifically, we have established biodiversity conservation areas in the local communities surrounding our business premises and are advancing initiatives toward registration of Nationally Certified Sustainably Managed Natural Sites,* while promoting activities that facilitate the maintenance and restoration of biodiversity, toward the goal of achieving a nature-positive world by 2030.

* Nationally Certified Sustainably Managed Natural Sites: Areas which the Government of Japan certifies as promoting biodiversity conservation through private-sector and other initiatives.

The Kawasaki Group has developed the Kawasaki Nature Coexistence Field (Kobe), in Nishi Ward, Kobe City, where we are conducting activities for the preservation of regional biodiversity. During a biological survey conducted in fiscal 2025, we discovered that the site is home to many rare species listed on the Red List. We aim to have this site registered as a Nationally Certified Sustainably Managed Natural Site certified by the Ministry of the Environment. Going forward, we will continue to develop this site as a conservation area for rare species in collaboration with the surrounding local community, while actively utilizing it as a venue where our stakeholders, including Kawasaki Group employees, can deepen their understanding of the conservation of rare species and of biodiversity.

Initiatives at Business Sites

Akashi Works was the recipient of a donation of Marsilea quadrifolia (“denjiso”) from Akashi City in July 2023. Marsilea quadrifolia is an aquatic plant designated as Category A on the Akashi City Red List of endangered species, and Akashi Works is currently conserving the donated plants in a biotope on its grounds. Every year, from spring through summer, clusters of leaves resembling four-leaf clovers appear on this plant. In February 2025, the Mayor of Akashi City undertook an inspection tour of the conservation status of the Marsilea quadrifolia as well as the plant’s biodiversity-conscious initiatives to date, which the Major acknowledged with words of praise and admiration for Kawasaki’s biodiversity conservation activities prioritizing harmony with the local environment and community. Akashi Works are furthermore currently working to renovate the biotope in cooperation with civic groups and the Akashi City authorities with the aim of conservation of this locality’s unique ecosystems. The plant also newly planted flora native to Akashi City under the guidance of specialists and utilized timber from tree felling during corporate forest restoration activities in fencing for the flower beds. The use of timber is also a policy being promoted by the Japanese government from the perspective of carbon fixation, with this initiative representing an attempt to utilize waste materials from corporate forest restoration activities within the plant. We will continue to promote local community-based environmental conservation activities.

Seishin Works has maintained a biotope within the plant grounds since November 2023. Every year, swallowtail butterflies visit to lay their eggs on mandarin orange trees in the grounds, from which caterpillars grow. Water lilies also bloom in the biotope, with Oryzias latipes (“minami-medaka”) swimming around them. Seishin Works will continue to develop this biotope toward the conservation of the diversity of biological organisms and ecosystems within its grounds.

Since fiscal 2015, many of our Group employees have participated as volunteers in the activities of Team Tyura Sango, which are aimed at the regeneration of coral reef through the planting of coral seedlings in Onna-son, Okinawa Prefecture. In fiscal 2024, a total of five activities were held. These Team Tyura Sango activities were awarded the Grand Prize at the Third Annual Good Life Award, sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment in December 2015.