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Clean streams for Tokyo: restoring the Freedom wetland

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Freedom wetland needs $2,050 for saplings and equipment.

🇯🇵 Japan2,146 views
Eri Rin Takagi
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Tokyo
The Freedom wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 107 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 111 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the district council, including native species selected by a local botanist. The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade. All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $2,050 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $1,150 • Tools and protective gear: $560 • Waste removal and skip hire: $230 • Signage and educational materials: $110 You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it. - Eri
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Eri

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($932 in total) I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely. - Eri

  2. Update from Tokyo: the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled. We're at 31% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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    “Stay strong. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Daegu”

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    Exceeded expectations

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  • Ronaldo João Dias

    Hope this works out for you. We're a small family in Üsküdar but we're thinking of you

    • Emily Espinoza

      thanks for sharing this, Eri. Hope you get there. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Take care.

      • Tahmina Mitu Saha

        More neighborhoods should do this. Thinking of Tokyo

        • Diya F. Jat

          you're not alone. Great idea, hope you get there. Thinking of Tokyo.

          • Tanvir Omar Dutta

            Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Love from Odesa.

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