Biodiversity

The Metal One Group recognizes that our business activities depend on natural capital and biodiversity, and that they also have the potential to affect them via the supply chain.

We believe the direct impact of our operations on biodiversity is limited. At the same time, we recognize that our overall supply chain, including the development of resources such as iron ore and marine transportation, may have a certain impact on ecosystems.

Based on this understanding, the Metal One Group has made biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of natural capital key management issues. While following international frameworks and guidelines, we will strive to understand related impacts and dependencies across all of our business activities, including the supply chain.

To deepen our understanding of biodiversity conservation and translate that knowledge into concrete action, the Metal One Group provides opportunities for executives and employees to join environment-related volunteer activities. We are advancing initiatives in a wide range of natural settings—including forests, watersides, and urban green spaces—that help preserve ecosystems and protect and enhance habitats for living organisms.

We launched a new initiative aimed at forest maintenance in fiscal 2024, joining a program promoted by the Tokyo Development Foundation for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to create forests that produce minimal pollen. We named a forest covering approximately 0.7 hectares in Hinode Town, Tokyo, as “Company Forest: Metal One’s Forest of Growth in Hinode” , and began continuous maintenance activities planned over a decade. In May 2024, executives, employees and their families planted saplings to support healthy forest growth and ecosystem conservation.

In November 2025, we also carried out a cleanup activity at Kasai Kaihin Park in Edogawa City, Tokyo. The park is an environmentally important area that includes valuable remaining tidal flats and wetlands in Tokyo Bay. It is also designated as a Ramsar Convention wetland. On cleanup day, executives, employees and their families collected trash and drift debris washed up along the shore, helping conserve habitats for a wide variety of living organisms including waterfowl.
During the same month, the Osaka Branch also held an event to clean up the promenade around Nakanoshima, with many employees taking part, including many from Group companies. By conserving natural environments in familiar urban areas, we are pursuing biodiversity conservation initiatives in collaboration with local communities.

Through forest maintenance, local cleanup activities and similar projects, these initiatives help sustain healthy ecosystems and restore the natural environment. They also provide each employee and executive with opportunities to build a personal connection with nature and reflect on the relationship between their own work and biodiversity. The Metal One Group will continue raising awareness among our executives and employees through these onsite experiences and drive initiatives that conserve biodiversity.