Natori City Victims’ Response to March 11 Tsunami:

Coastal Forest Restoration Project

2011-2020

Washington, D.C., Oct 10, 2013

OISCA-International

Natori, May 2012

A black pine seedling

Natori

Sendai Airport, Sendai Airport, Natori, Natori, 1999 1999

Natori, March 10, 2011

Natori, March 12, 2011Natori, March 12, 2011

Above Natori Seashore to Sendai Airport

Natori Seashore, March, 2011

Natori, March 30, 2012

Black pine sowing

Natori, April 30, 2012

Black pine germinating

Natori, victims and stakeholders of this project

Natori, April 20, 2013

Intermediate transplanting of black pine seedlings

Mangrove in Indonesia

Fiji, coral transplanting

Natori seashore, tsunami-affected trees are chipped and pilled up. Planting of black pine trees will begin in 2014 spring time.

June 27, 2013

Underneath these wooden chips are chipped concrete and other harmless materials.

June 27, 2013

Fallen trees are also reutilized as wind-breakers to protect young seedlings from strong sandy, salty winds from the Pacific Ocean.

June 27, 2013

Growing black pine seedlings

Natori Sep. 21, 2013

Natori. Image of seashore restoration

Ocean

Black pines Broad leaf trees

Thank you for your participation.

Our project to restore 100 hectares seashore of Natori, Miyagi-Pref., northeast Japan, started soon after March 11, 2011 and will last for 10 years. During which 500,000 black pine seedlings will be raised and planted one after the other. It will cost $10 billion. We cordially welcome voluntary donations.

OISCA-International17-5, 2-chome, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 168-0063, JapanFax: +81-3-3324-7111www.oisca-international.org