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Number of participants
The bamboo forest activities have started in 2001, and since January 2004, with a monthly average of about 37
people, 52 regularly organized maintenance activities were undertaken with a total of about 2000 participants as
is shown in figure 8 (figure 8).
Figure 8: Number of participants
The first months of 2004, when the activities started, more than 50 participants attended the events, many people
were interested but due to the hard labor work of cutting and carrying the bamboos, many participants attended
only once or twice. The peak moments are events with more than 70 participants, events which are organized in
collaboration with events organized by the city or by other organizations. Due to long lasting bad weather in
2006, the number of participants decreased. At the end of 2006, the employees of four local companies joined
the group of volunteers. In Japan, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become very important and local
companies are starting to join the bamboo forest preservation activities. Participating companies are; 1) Kowa
Seiko Corporation, 2) Yaskawa Electric Corporation, 3) Duskin Corporation, 4) Hibikinada Development
Corporation.
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