Preservation of Biodiversity

All living things are intricately connected in various relationships and live in balance. We benefit from this biodiversity in our lives.

MITSUBISHI MOTORS Group both directly and indirectly impacts on biodiversity due to our business activities. We have established the “Mitsubishi Motors Group Guidelines for the Preservation of Biodiversity” in order to protect the benefits of biodiversity so that humankind can continue to benefit from it. We have also identified the “Preservation of Biodiversity” as one of our material issues, and we are preservation activities in Japan and overseas.

At our main business sites in Japan, we have conducted ecosystem surveys to assess the impact that the use of land in Company business has on local biosystems. Based on the results of these surveys, we are promoting the maintenance of green areas within our business sites and the preservation of rare plants rooted in the local community. We also promote tree planting and other conservation activities at affiliated companies overseas.

In Japan, We are engaged in forest preservation initiatives at two sites: “Pajero Forest” (approximately 7.23 hectaresin Hayakawa-cho, Yamanashi Prefecture, and “Okazaki Outlander Forest” (approximately 50.7 hectares) in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture. We have entered into formal agreements with local partners—since 2006 with Hayakawa Town and the OISCA JAPAN for Pajero Forest, and since 2023 with Okazaki City for Outlander Forest—to collaboratively promote sustainable forest management.
In FY2024, in addition to forest thinning and other maintenance activities carried out by our local partners, approximately 300 employees from our company and group companies, along with their family members, participated in four volunteer events. These activities included undergrowth clearing, trail maintenance, and tree planting, contributing to the preservation and revitalization of local forest ecosystems.

In March 2024, Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (MMTh) carried out a mangrove planting initiative in Khlung District, Chanthaburi Province, Thailand. In collaboration with the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources , under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Thailand , MMTh planted over 12,000 mangrove trees across an area of 16.57 rai (approximately 3 hectares).

Based on an ecosystem survey conducted, we learned that the Kyoto Plant, which is located in urban Kyoto, serves as a refuge where certain plants and insects can survive locally, and we found that this area was an important environment in terms of preserving regional diversity. To create a habitat for dragonflies and other insects, we built a biotope in the “Plaza of Relaxation,” a green space on the campus. The pond in the square nurtures water lilies and oval-leafed pondweed. in addition, the square nurtures species such as the Blackberry lily, Eupatorium japonicum, and Asarum caulescens, that are native to the city of Kyoto.

We are working to protect the rare white egret flower by preserving wetlands located within the plant. Employees regularly remove invasive herbaceous plants such as broomsedge bluestem and maintain the wetland environment, which gives the white egret flower room to bloom every summer.