Mitsubishi Electric Builds Conservation Fences to Protect Seagrass Off Iriomote Island, Okinawa and Donates Them to Taketomi Town
September 02 2024 - 10:10PM
Business Wire
To support marine biodiversity as well as
absorption and fixation of carbon dioxide
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today
that it has built undersea conservation fences off Iriomote Island,
Okinawa Prefecture, to protect tape seagrass, a Category II
vulnerable species on the Ministry of the Environment’s Red List,
and donated the fences to the town of Taketomi in Yaeyama County,
Okinawa Prefecture, which administers the island, during a ceremony
on September 2.
In Japan, Tape seagrass, a species of the Hydrocharitaceae
family that grows to about one meter in length, exists in colonies
found only in Yaeyama Islands, of which Iriomote is the largest and
most important habitat. The Ministry of the Environment’s Red List
quantifies assesses the risk of extinction for each species of
wildlife living in Japan. Seagrasses, seaweeds, salt marshes and
mangrove forests in coastal and marine ecosystems are major
absorbers of so-called blue carbon, which is stored in their
biomass and in the soil beneath them.
Through initiatives in diverse fields, Mitsubishi Electric is
committed to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, a major contributor
to climate change. Through field surveys of blue-carbon ecosystems,
the company has confirmed that tape seagrass serves as a spawning
and breeding ground for marine life, and also absorbs and fixes
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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