[April Dream] Creating a 'Gentle Boundary' to Protect Crops and Eliminate Collisions with Deer Using the Power of Starfish
Heartech Bio Sector Co., Ltd. announced a project to create a 'gentle boundary' using starfish-derived components to solve the severe agricultural damage and roadkills caused by Ezo deer in Hokkaido.
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Our company supports April Dream, an initiative to make April 1st a day to broadcast dreams. This press release is the dream of "Heartech Bio Sector Co., Ltd."
[Image: [Our Origin] The "blooming harvest" we want to get back (Orin apple blossoms)]
[Image: The "reality of feeding damage by deer" right there now]
In Hokkaido, agricultural damage and traffic accidents (roadkills) caused by Ezo deer have become a serious social issue.
In FY2024, it was announced that agricultural damage amounted to approximately 5.27 billion yen annually, roadkills numbered 6,705 cases, and average vehicle repair costs were about 620,000 yen.
However, what lies behind these numbers is not just "money." It is human lives. And the lives of wild animals.
"...We used to harvest so many apples that they couldn't even fit in this warehouse."
These words, heard at an orchard in Minami-ku, Sapporo, are my origin.
Fruit trees with their buds eaten, bark peeled off, and left damaged by deer.
[Image: [Reality of the damage] A fruit tree with its bark completely peeled off, in danger of dying while standing.]
[Image: [Our Origin] The "blooming harvest" we want to get back (Orin apple blossoms)]
[Image: The "reality of feeding damage by deer" right there now]
In Hokkaido, agricultural damage and traffic accidents (roadkills) caused by Ezo deer have become a serious social issue.
In FY2024, it was announced that agricultural damage amounted to approximately 5.27 billion yen annually, roadkills numbered 6,705 cases, and average vehicle repair costs were about 620,000 yen.
However, what lies behind these numbers is not just "money." It is human lives. And the lives of wild animals.
"...We used to harvest so many apples that they couldn't even fit in this warehouse."
These words, heard at an orchard in Minami-ku, Sapporo, are my origin.
Fruit trees with their buds eaten, bark peeled off, and left damaged by deer.
[Image: [Reality of the damage] A fruit tree with its bark completely peeled off, in danger of dying while standing.]