On the 21st, elementary school students in the city experienced conservation activities such as weeding at Takada Matsubara in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, where 40,000 pine trees were planted after most of the pine forest was lost due to the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake. ..
About 30 people from the 1st to 4th grades of Yokota Elementary School in Rikuzentakata visited Takata Matsubara and experienced weeding around the pine trees using a sickle.
Takata Matsubara used to be a scenic spot with 70,000 pine forests along the sea, but it was all washed away by the tsunami of the earthquake, leaving behind a "miracle pine tree".
After that, 40,000 pine trees were planted by the prefecture and local NPOs by last year, and some of them have grown to over 2 meters in height.
At Yokota Elementary School, a green boy group has been formed in anticipation of the national tree-planting festival to be held at the Takata Matsubara Tsunami Reconstruction Memorial Park next spring, and children are sometimes surprised and motivated to find insects. I was working on the work.
The fourth grader who participated said, "Every pine has a different shape and is interesting. I want you to return to the same appearance as before the earthquake."
Yoshihisa Suzuki, the chairman of the NPO "Takada Matsubara Protective Society", said, "I came here with the cooperation of various volunteers. I asked young people to be involved in conservation work and realized my growth with Matsu. I want it. "