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Mitsubishi Electric Builds Conservation Fences to Protect Seagrass Off Iriomote Island, Okinawa and Donates Them to Taketomi Town

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has built undersea conservation fences off Iriomote Island, Okinawa Prefecture, to protect tape seagrass, a Category II vulnerable species on the Ministry of the Environment’s Red List, and donated the fences to the town of Taketomi in Yaeyama County, Okinawa Prefecture, which administers the island, during a ceremony on September 2. In Japan, Tape seagrass, a species of the Hydrocharitaceae family tha...

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