Encouraging Future Generations to Appreciate Global Environmental Issue

The Nikon Group aims to pass on a healthy global environment to future generations. To this end, we conduct environmental awareness activities for children.

Participation in Nikon Group Environmental Awareness Raising Activities 1,175

Nikon introduced Light on Small in September 2017. In the five years since, 3,369 children from 38 schools have learned about the environment using this educational tool.

The Light on Small Environmental Education Program

In the Netherlands, Nikon Europe B.V. offers an environmental education program called Light on Small, conducted in collaboration with the local branch of the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), an international education NGO. A total of 1,000 school children used these teaching materials during fiscal year 2022.

The AKAYA NOTE is a study booklet that supports environmental education in the elementary schools of Minakami Town, Gunma Prefecture, where the Akaya Forest is located. During the fiscal year 2022, Nikon donated notebooks to Minakami Town through the Nature Conservation Society of Japan (NACS-J), which runs the Akaya Project.

The AKAYA NOTE: Helping Students Learn Biodiversity by Studying Forest Creatures

We support the Akaya Project, which aims to restore biodiversity in Japan. As part of our efforts here, Nikon created a study booklet named the AKAYA NOTE for children, and we have distributed this booklet to schools free of charge.We distributed 100 booklets to schools during the fiscal year 2022.

In addition to bird and insect observation, activities at the seaside park included a workshop on the ocean plastic problem and a beach cleanup.

Providing children with the experience of observing creatures in forests and near waterways

Nikon Vision launched an activity titled Ikimono Observation Day in fiscal year 2022. This activity was conducted in cooperation with the Wild Bird Society of Japan, a nature conservation organization, with the aim of conveying to children the joy of science learning and the importance of environmental conservation through hands-on observation of living creatures. A total of 153 parents and children participated in the biannual activities held in a green conservation area and a seaside park close to the city and focused on the theme of observing nature in forests and near waterways.

Pick UpAKAYA Project

Nikon has been supporting the AKAYA Project of the Nature Conservation Society of Japan (NACS-J) since 2006. This project conducts surveys and demonstration tests to conserve and restore biodiversity in the Akaya Forest, a government-owned forest that stretches along the border between Gunma and Niigata prefectures. In addition to providing products such as digital cameras and binoculars, Nikon employees are volunteering to help restore the natural forest. To assist in the project’s wildlife habitat survey, Nikon developed an application to detect animal images automatically from the tens of thousands of images acquired by the NACS-J.

AKAYA Project (Japanese Only)

In recent years, verification testing has been carried out on the regeneration of natural forest following the clearing of man-made forest in the Akaya Forest. Since 2016, Nikon Group employees have been participating in this project as volunteers.