The specified non-profit corporation Asaza Fund focuses its activities on the basins of Lake Kasumigaura and Lake Kitaura in Ibaraki Prefecture, and aims to become a model for a circular community by preserving and restoring “satoyama” (traditional rural forest) that are rapidly disappearing due to abandonment of farmland and population outflow, and improving the local environment and rebuilding places for human interaction through its activities with the aim of maintaining and revitalizing biodiversity and the local community. We spoke with Representative Director Iijima-san.

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