ANA, Asiana join forces in tree-planting project

Star Alliance member airlines ANA and Asiana will plant 500 Japanese black pine trees near Yonago airport in Tottori Prefecture in southern central Japan on Nov 9, as part of a combined environmental effort to reforest a wooded area devastated by the mountain pine beetle.

The reforestation project will fall under the umbrella of ANA’s Aozora (Blue skies) CSR activities, and 200 volunteers from schools and community associations Sainokami Town in Sakai Minato – a coastal city in the locality of Yonago airport – are expected to take part in planting the saplings. Volunteers from ANA and Asiana – from Seoul and Asiana stations throughout Japan – will also take part.

ANA, together with Tottori Governor Shinji Hirai and Sakai Minato City Mayor Katsuji Nakamura, signed a three year Forestry Protection & Management Accord on Jan 24 this year, in which the airline committed to planting tress in the area surrounding Yonago airport as part of a wider reforestation program run by Tottori Prefecture. This is ANA’s second tree-planting project in the Yonago airport vicinity, and the 26th forest nationwide since the Aozora project began five years ago.

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