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Dr. Akira Miyawaki, vegetation ecologist expert and Professor Emeritus of Yokohama National University graced the tree planting ceremony organized by Sukabumi Training Center and sponsored by Mitsubishi Corporation at OISCA’s project site in Mt. Gede Pangrango National Park in West Java, Indonesia. 

OISCA has been participating in The Green Wave all over the world since 2009. This year 2011, the International Year of Forests and the starting year of United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, over 14,000 children and adults at 105 OISCA sites in 13 countries have taken part in the campaign.

A three-day environmental camp was held on the 11th -13th of December at Langsat Primary School in Ranau joined by 126 students from the nine different CFP schools within Sabah, Malaysia. During the event, the participants joined in the series of activities organized by the staff of KPD/OISCA Youth Training Center in Tenom mainly for the purpose of educating, involving and raising environmental awareness among the participants.

Canadian government delegation led by H.E.Mr. Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, on a working visit to Japan in early November, went on November 12  to Miyagi Prefecture, one of the March disaster-hit areas, to inspect the unloading of the Canadian timber that arrived at the Sendai Port for the first time after the disaster.