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Description:

In the heart of Tokyo, bristling with skyscrapers, there is a forest 700,000 square meters in area located on the site of Meiji Jingu shrine. The forest is mainly composed of evergreen broadleaf trees, such as chinquapin, oak and camphor, and provides habitat to many wild birds. This forest was created about 90 years ago as a project with a 150-year vision. It was planted with the cooperation of about 110,000 volunteers, who planted some 100,000 trees of 365 different species donated by people around the nation.
(from JFS Newsletter #39, November 2005)

Location:
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Category:
Forest, Conservation

Actor:
Citizen

More info:
Meiji Jingu
http://www.meijijingu.or.jp/english/index.html

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