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The member's nature conservation activity
Suntory Limited

• URL: http://www.suntory.com/
  Liaison: Environmental Affairs Department
  Address: 2-2-3 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 135-8631, Japan
  Telephone: +81-3-5579-1513
  FAX : +81-3-5579-1720
  Mail address: eco@suntory.co.jp

1. Nature conservation (Environment) Measure posture to activity

Perceiving that preservation of the global environment is one of the most important concerns of humankind, Suntory formulated the "Basic Principles of Suntory's Environmental Policy" in 1997 (revised Dec. 2001) based on the "Precept of Suntory's Environmental Conduct (formulated 1992)". This policy, the Basic Philosophy and Precept of Environmental Activities of which are stated below, elucidates the concept underlying all the business activities of Suntory Group related to the environment.

• 1. We promise to comply with applicable legislations & regulations relating to the environment to work on our business activities under our strict voluntary control standards.
• 2. We promise to establish an environmental management system to work on environmental activities which lead to continual improvement setting our own environmental objects and targets.
• 3. We promise to take the environmental impacts throughout the lifecycle of our products and services into due consideration from the beginning of their development.
• 4. We promise to reduce the usage of natural resources through promotion of resource-saving, energy-saving and Green Purchase activities as well.
• 5. We promise to reduce the emission of the which cause global warming and environmental contamination and also promise to reduce our wastes promoting their resource recovery as well as to promote recycling of used beverage containers.
• 6. We promise to work on social contributions for the preservation of the global environment.
• 7. We promise to release our environmental information open to the public and promote communications with society.
• 8. We, all the members of Suntory Group, promise to act with environmentally oriented mind through environmental education and enlightenment.

2. Cooperation with NGO

We started the "Save the Birds! Campaign" in 1973 and have been supporting in diverse ways various associations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature Japan, the Japanese Society of Preservation of Birds, the Wild Bird Society of Japan and the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology which are engaged in researches and activities contributing toward the conservation of nature and wild creatures.

The examples of our supporting activities are as follows:

Suntory backs up the activities that the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology is conducting at Torishima Island to save the albatrosses there of an endangered species. Through the "Save the Albatross Campaign" Sunotry has raised a sum of 6.2 million yen as of March, 2004.

The Suntory Fund for Birds Conservation was founded in 1990 to make the "Save the Birds! Campaign" more substantial. Utilizing this fund Suntory has subsidized the activities to contribute to preserve wild birds which lead to the promotion of conservation of global environment. A total amount of 192.8 million yen (as of its 16th presentation in 2005) of subsidy has already been presented to 75 different activities of various associations since 1990.

In cooperation with the Forest Instructors' Association and the Nature Game Association of local communities, "Suntory School of Forest and Water" provides children with learning through vivid experiences in their Forest of Natural Water.

Suntory has established Tennouzan/Nishiyama Forestry Association to perform forestry activities in the area jointly with the local participants of voluntary activists, civic groups and the municipalities concerned.

3. Environmental education and volunteer training (employee)

4. Environmental education (exterior)

As is stated already, we have initiated a program the "Suntory School of Forest and Water" in March 2004 in cooperation with the local community. Children, who will exert leadership for the next generation, can touch and realize the wonderful world of nature and water cultivating forest through the program.

In January 2005 Suntory published "Eco-Kids Note" which explains environmental matters to younger generation in plain words with a lot of data and illustrations. "Eco-Kids Note" consists of 3 booklets and over 100 thousand copies have already been distributed to the primary schools of nationwide for free.

We place "Environmental Corner" at every production site of our own. We introduce the visitors our environmental activities and remind them of significance to preserve global environment handing out leaflet to promote Green Purchase in their daily life.

An Eco-Brewery (ecology minded beer brewery) Tour is in operation at every Suntory brewery to let the participants who can visit the backside of our ecology oriented beer production realize our environmental activities.

We runs various environment related websites, such as "Waku-waku (interesting & exiting) Eco-Land -Let's learn recycling with parents", "Virtual Eco-Brewery Tour" and "Suntory School of Forest & Water (virtual version)" counting many hits every month.

5. Practical use and preservation of the company-owned ground etc.

We devote approximately half the total area of our production sites (290ha, as of Mar. 2005) to green space and as exemplified by our Hakushu Distillery & Water Plant, nature conservation activities such as nurture of water resources are performed at and around Suntory facilities.

At the Bird Sanctuaries of our Hakushu Distillery & Water Plant and Azusanomori Plant, which are quite rare facilities among private sector in Japan, various programs such as bird-watching and birdhouse setting are taken place with the participation of many kids of the area.

6. Woods structure activities of afforestation, silviculture, etc.

Headed by the 102ha of "Forest of Natural Water" in the southern somma of Mt. Aso, from where the natural water for Kyushu-Kumamoto Plant comes , we have begun our work to preserve water cultivation forest in partnership with the Forestry Agency of Japan and/or the National Land Afforestation Promotion Organization. We are to develop this project in various parts of Japan and have already started the activities at Hakushu (Yamanashi Pref.), Mt. Komochi (Gumma Pref.) and Tennouzan/Nishiyama (Kyoto/Osaka Prefs.).

7. Others

Our Hakushu Distillery & Water Plant joins the program of Yamanashi Prefecture's "Partners of Forest Maintenance" and a total number of 98 employees and their family members participated in 3 times of forest maintenance activities in 2004.

Various environment beautification activities of the surrounding public areas are regularly performed by the employees of every Suntory facility. In total 1,109 voluntary employees engaged in this kind of activities last year on their off-days.

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