Kitakyushu launches Japan's largest habitat zone

At the end of last year, Kitakyushu city opened the largest area of ​​Hibikinada in Japan, with a rich collection of plants and animals.

This 41-hectare landscape is located in the reclaimed area in front of Habikinada beach. Kitakyushu City spent 400 million yen to renovate and maintain this habitat.

This 20-year process includes waste treatment and natural swamp creation with rainwater, turning this area into a wild natural environment as it is.

In the habitat zone, Kitakyushu also set up a center that allows visitors to learn and study ecology.

Speaking at the ceremony, Kitasyushu market Kenji Kitahashi said the city is developing towards turning crisis into an opportunity, creating a green environment, turning people's dreams and efforts into reality.

Hibikinada has 237 types of birds at the habitat zone, including endangered species. This habitat will be Kitakyushu's new pride and a symbol of the slogan "City of the Future".

The city also organizes sightseeing tours for 100 local citizens on the occasion of opening the living area.

In the 1960s, Kitakyushu was heavily polluted. At that time, the factories here emitted toxic seven-color smoke, seawater pollution caused dead fish, black river water as black as sewage .

However, Kitasyushu is now considered a model of green technology as well as an example of treating pollution and transforming an industrial city into a smart city.

Many cities, companies and organizations in Vietnam went to visit and learn about Kytasyushu's model of pollution treatment and remediation with the support of the city government and Japanese cooperation agency JICA.