The ANA Group has been conducting forestation activities near domestic airports since 2004. In the fiscal year ended March 2012, the Group conducted forestation activities at seven locations throughout Japan, including Tokkari Forest near Okhotsk-Monbetsu Airport and Sudachi Forest near Tokushima Airport. These activities involved gathering volunteers in each region, with local residents communicating and working with ANA Group employees to plant trees and cultivate forests. In addition, we cooperated with the Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University in holding Blue Sky School field seminars that taught about forestation, the environment and biological preservation.

As a future initiative of the new medium-to-long-term environmental plan ANA FLY ECO 2020, we aim for forestation that can contribute even more to regional communities. On July 26, 2012, we started ANA Spirit Forest in Minami Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture. We will also begin programs to use wood thinned by employee volunteers and local residents.

The coral of Okinawa is being damaged by threats such as chlorosis caused by the rising temperature of seawater and mass propagation of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish. The ANA Group has joined with businesses in Okinawa and other prefectures to form an industry-government project called Team Tyura Sango. It has been working since 2004 to protect and regenerate the coral reef community near Onnason, Okinawa.

Specifically, volunteer divers emplaced coral polyps cultured at facilities on land, twice in spring and twice in autumn during the fiscal year ended March 2012. To date, more than 1,800 volunteer divers have participated.

The polyps placed through these ongoing preservation activities are now growing on their own in small coral formations and are reproducing. Through this project, the ANA Group is sharing its commitment to a clean ocean with many people.