Biodiversity Restoration Along the Tsurumi River

Hottest months are passing at Tsurumi River Green Belt

Hottest months of summer that have been repeling children and also various attractive plants and animals from our Tsurumi-river Tsunashima riverside green belt are just passing. The Ogi plants (the target native species of our restoration work) begin to sprout eras telling the arrival of the autumn wind.

After a short and inevitable hiatus we have been and are busy again during those days tending the Ogi plants that have survived the hottest weather, by cutting the the thriving and encroaching invasive foreign plants like bull cucumber( Aretiuri in Japanese, Sycyous sp.) and giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida) . Bull cucumber is just beginning to bloom. Flowers will shortly turn into large number of seed pods protected by dense and dangerously sharp spines. So eradicating those plant has been and shall be the first priority for us during our late summer   to autumn efforts.

At the same time , we just begin to clear densely growing weeds and grasses (foregin or native) to turn the river-side zone comfortable enough to be used by returning children and citizen for playing and recreation. These are the tyhoon seasn for central Japan area. Fineand rather cool days are becoming more and more precious for our unescapably concentrated autumn work.