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WBC-VIII-Vol.4 – Resources – Forestry, Plantations and ... - BambuSC

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NPO Kitakyushu Biotope Network Group<br />

The Kitakyushu Biotope Network Group has been created in July 2001. Members of the group consist of<br />

academics, company people, local government people, local citizens, students, etc. There are about 25 core<br />

members. Since June 2003, the Kitakyushu Biotope Network Group has become a Non Profit Organization<br />

(NPO). The main goal of the Kitakyushu Biotope Network Group is to work on issues of environmental<br />

protection, mainly dealing with preservation of nature in the urban <strong>and</strong> suburban area as well as dealing with<br />

topics of environmental education. The sustainable community planning activities undertaken by the NPO<br />

Kitakyushu Biotope Network Group can be divided into environmental preservation activities related to;<br />

1) forest <strong>and</strong> bamboo forest preservation<br />

2) river <strong>and</strong> seashore preservation<br />

3) agriculture activities for children<br />

Since 2001, the Kitakyushu Biotope Network Group has organized over 100 sustainable community planning<br />

activities. In this report only the activities related to bamboo forest preservations will be mentioned as is shown<br />

in table 1.<br />

Table 1 List of bamboo related activities<br />

Date Name of the bamboo related event<br />

10 Nov. 2001 2nd EPA: Bamboo Forest Preservation Project<br />

29 April 2002 3rd EPA: Clean Up the Egawa River by use of a bamboo raft<br />

19-22 Aug. 2002 5th EPA: First Bamboo Design Workshop<br />

14 Sept. 2002 Junior Meister Course: Making of Bamboo Charcoal Part 1<br />

12 Oct. 2002 Junior Meister Course: Making of Bamboo Charcoal Part 2<br />

23 Nov. 2002 6th EPA: Bamboo Forest Preservation - International Collaboration<br />

9 March 2003 9th EPA: Satoyama Preservation<br />

29 Nov. 2003 Dream Cupid: Making of Bamboo Charcoal<br />

12-14 Nov. 2004 17th EPA: Green Town Planning Workshop in the Kitakyushu Science <strong>and</strong> Research<br />

Park<br />

20 Aug. 2005 Bamboo Craft Course for children<br />

11 Sept. 2005 21st EPA: Fishing with bamboo pole in the Egawa river<br />

3-6 Nov. 2005 23rd EPA: Second Bamboo Design Workshop [Shelter 3X3X3]<br />

18 Feb. 2006 26th EPA: Egawa River <strong>and</strong> Dokai Bay Project Part 9: Water Purification of the Dokai<br />

Bay by using of bamboo<br />

9 July 2006 28th EPA: 5 year Commemoration Project Part 1: Cooking Papa<br />

17 July 2006 28th EPA: 5 year Commemoration Project Part 2: Cross the Dokai Bay with a bamboo<br />

raft<br />

5, 6 Aug. 2006 28th EPA: 5 year Commemoration Project Part 3: Nagasaki Historical Road Bamboo<br />

Lantern Event<br />

27 Aug. 2006 Bamboo Craft Course for children<br />

14 Oct. 2006 Bamboo Craft Course for children<br />

23 Nov. 2006 Bamboo Craft Course for children<br />

10 Feb. 2007 31st EPA: Bamboo Preservation Event<br />

<strong>VIII</strong> World Bamboo Congress Proceedings Vol 4-110

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