Hino Green Fund Grant Recipients Finalized for 2006

We hereby advise you that the Hino Green Fund, established through a capital investment by Hino Motors, Ltd., has decided the grant recipients for FY2006 as well as the project contents, as indicated below. The Fund has been developing various activities that contribute to the conservation of the natural environment as a “green grant foundation” since first established in 1991. The major cornerstone consists of activities that support private sector organizations promoting community-level initiatives for environmental conservation. It conducts public solicitation of projects once a year, decides recipients from among the entries and provides grants to them. ● Description of the grants for 2006

Grant category		Activity description	Recipient
1	Grants for activities of trees and flower planting	Development of an avenue of cherry trees in the Ikoma Fureai Center	Ikoma Rotary Club
2	Grants for natural environment conservation activities	Monkey watching - intra-species coexistence	Tokyo Wild Japanese Monkey Observation Group
		Community forest conservation and dissemination activities at the Tama Zoo Park	Tama Hills Community Forest Conservation Activity Group
		Scenery conservation activities in Asuka Village and the development of an international network	Asuka Scenery Conservation Volunteer Association
		Additional surveys and symposium for old and exceptional trees in the Chichibu area	NPO Group for Thinking About the Environment of Chichibu
		Expansion of the shinaimotsugo habitat pond through the foster parent program	NPO Shinaimotsugo Village Group
3	Grants for surveys and research conductive to the conservation of the natural environment	Bioecological surveys for the production of "The Living Yura River", supplementary nature learning reader	Wildlife Survey and Research Association
		Reassessment of the disappearing community-level natural environment	NPO Eco-Life
		Impact of feral raccoons on native species	Hinode Mujina Club Ecology Team
4	Grants for cultivating activities to the conservation of the natural environment	Production of a Shikoku frog field guide and frog ecological surveys in Kochi Prefecture	NPO Shikoku Natural History Research Center
		Activities to contribute to nature conservation in southern Ibaraki Prefecture	Tsuchiura Vegetation Friends Society
		Publication of Nagaike Park dragonfly field guide	Nagaike Park Wildlife Field Guide Workshop
		Contributions to "green environment education" for elementary school students taking the next generation into account	Tama Sakura 100-Year Story Forum
		"Forest School" nature conservation and protection education for youth	Tanzawa Nature Protection Association