Mayors for Peace

Sharing seeds from A-bombed trees

Mayors for Peace is distributing seeds from A-bomb survivor trees in Hiroshima in response to member cities requests. Please join us in this program by nurturing the trees distributed to your city as symbols of peace, and use them to raise peace consciousness among citizens.

Requests to Those Receiving the Seeds

Mayors for Peace asks each recipient city to accommodate the following requests:

• 1.To raise seeds/seedlings under the care of experts, such as in botanical gardens, until they become tall and sturdy enough to plant.
• 2.Provide the Mayors for Peace Secretariat with updates on development of the trees at least once a year. These updates should include some information on their height, number of seedlings, growing place and a plan/report of peace activities based around them as well as their photos.

Notes

• 1.Delivery of seeds to member cities overseas is done by post. As a seedling is not suitable for international postal delivery, the Mayors for Peace Secretariat can offer a seedling only when it is to be transported in the luggage of someone who is traveling from Hiroshima to the recipient city.
• 2.When trees from the seeds become tall and sturdy enough to be planted in the ground, the Mayors for Peace Secretariat can donate an explanatory plaque. Please inform the Secretariat of plans of events involving the tree, such as a planting ceremony. Please be advised that a recipient city can receive one explanatory plaque for each species.

UN Secretary-General Planting the tree at United Nations Office at Geneva Photo Credit:UN photos/PM Virot

Procedure to Distribute Seeds

• 1.[Recipient City] Contact the Mayors for Peace Secretariat
  If a member city wants to receive seeds from A-bomb trees and agrees to accommodate the requests above, please contact the Mayors for Peace Secretariat (mayorcon@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp) by email.
• 2.[Mayors for Peace Secretariat] Conduct preparatory research
  a. The Secretariat researches the species of A-bomb trees appropriate for the recipient city’s climate
  b. The Secretariat confirms whether or not procedures for quarantine, export and import licenses are required by the sending country and the receiving country.
• 3.[Mayors for Peace Secretariat] Send a questionnaire to the recipient city
  Based on the preparatory research in 2 - a, the Secretariat enters relevant information into the questionnaire and sends it to the recipient city. If quarantine or an import license is required by the receiving country, the Secretariat informs the recipient city of this information at this point.
• 4.[Recipient City] Return the questionnaire
  a. The recipient city answers the questionnaire by filling in required information, such as tree species they want to receive, intended care facility (e.g. a botanical garden), and contact information, and returns the questionnaire to the Mayors for Peace Secretariat.
  b. In the case that some procedure is required by the receiving country, the recipient city should contact a domestic quarantine office for their advice on the procedure, then share this information with the Mayors for Peace Secretariat.
• 5.[Mayors for Peace Secretariat] Send out seeds
  Upon confirmation of the returned questionnaire and the completion of required procedure for quarantine and an import license, the Mayors for Peace Secretariat sends out seeds to the recipient city. Shipping costs are covered by the Secretariat.

• >Questionnaire(Sample)

List of Recipients of Seeds/Seedlings of A-bombed Trees

As of October 1, 2018

1. Distribution of Seeds (31 municipalities and 1 organization in 14 countries)

2. Distribution of Seedlings (16 municipalities and 3 organizations in 9 countries)

Distribution of Seeds/Seedlings in total:
47 municipalities and 4 organizations in 17 countries outside of Japan

Downloadable pamphlet

A pamphlet introducing this project is available as an easily downloadable, full-color PDF. For anyone thinking of applying for seeds, we invite you to take a look. Please feel free to distribute it to any interested parties.
　・Specifications: originally designed as an A5 size 12 page full color booklet in English

※1 Print out on 6 double-sided A4 size sheets, fold in half and staple the binding to create an A5 size booklet.
※2 Print out on 12 single-sided A4 sized sheets. (1) includes the front cover and pages 1-5. (2) includes pages 6-10 and the back cover.

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Poster Exhibition

In order to give as many people as possible a much deeper understanding of the reality of the atomic bombings and to raise global awareness for the abolition of nuclear weapons, we are asking member cities to hold an exhibition using Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb Posters and other related materials.

Posters available in: English, German, French, Russian, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan

■After holding the poster exhibition, please report the result of the exhibition to the Mayors for Peace Secretariat.

• > Click here to download the Report Form

E-mail to ／mayorcon@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp

■If your municipality is not a member of Mayors for Peace or you are from an other kind of organization and want to use the posters, please submit the Application Form and materials, such as a plan document explaining your events to the Mayors for Peace Secretariat.

• >Click here to download the Application Form

Apply to ／mayorcon@pcf.city.hiroshima.jp

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