Protection of Biodiversity

The Yamaha Group conducts business activities that utilize natural resources, such as the timber used as a raw material to make a variety of products including acoustic musical instruments, and the ecosystems that produce these resources. The Group promotes appropriate business activities and appropriate timber use as well as environmental preservation activities based on its commitments for the preservation of forests and the protection of biodiversity, as stated in the Yamaha Group Sustainability Policy and the Yamaha Group Environmental Policy.

To limit the impact of chemical substances on the environment and ecosystems, the Yamaha Group is working to enhance management and reduce usage of chemical substances while implementing measures to prevent leakage.

The Yamaha Group is building treatment facilities and conducting monitoring and audits to prevent wastewater from factories from contaminating public water systems, soil, and groundwater.

Yamaha Music Manufacturing Japan Corporation, which is located within the Yamaha Corporation Toyooka Factory, conducts the production of wind instruments. Wastewater containing chemical substances from the wind instrument production process at this company is detoxified before being released into waterways. The impact of such factory wastewater is evaluated using the bioresponsive Whole Effluent Toxicity method,^* and these evaluations have confirmed that the impact on ecosystems is minimal.

Over the period spanning from 2005 to 2016, Yamaha Corporation and six local Indonesian subsidiaries carried out Phase 1 and Phase 2 Yamaha Forest activities in the form of planting saplings in Indonesia, thus contributing to the regional society. In these activities, we planted tree types selected based on academic studies in order to restore natural forests and rehabilitate ecosystems in accordance with regional characteristics.

In fiscal 2018, the Company confirmed the status of forest growth using satellite imagery and estimated the CO₂ emissions absorbed by the trees in the Yamaha Forest areas from both Phases 1 and 2 of the project. The Company estimates that approximately 42,000 t-CO₂ have been absorbed to date.

In 2007, Yamaha Corporation signed a supporter of future forests in Shizuoka agreement with Shizuoka Prefecture and Hamamatsu City. Based on this agreement, Yamaha Corporation works to support the reforestation of the Enshunada Coastal Forest owned by Hamamatsu City. These activities include continuously planting saplings in a coastal forest that was seriously damaged by pine weevils. Planted on an annual basis, the trees have been growing steadily.

In October 2021, trees were planted by environmental staff as the tree planting event was not open to the public.