GLH partners around the world
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Click here to read a message from GLH Coordinator Nassrine Azimi
グリーン・レガシー・ヒロシマは広島の被爆樹木を守り、その種や苗木を世界中に送り届けるために設立されました。多くのパートナーがこのイニシアチブに参加し、自分たちの国における広島と平和のメッセージ、「緑の遺産」の大使となってくれることを期待しています。
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To mark the 2014 "Heritage for the Future Project Award" by the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan, given to GLH, the UNESCO team in Tokyo visited Hiroshima and interviewed GLH, releasing a beautiful article. (In Japanese only)
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GLH featured in a recent civil society paper for UN Office for Disarmament Affairs written by Lovely Umayam, titled "Disarming With Story: How Survivor Stories Shape Nuclear Disarmament Work."
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Organized with Hiroshima University graduate student Engy Turk, GLH will host a learning workshop, with lectures from GLH coordinator and seed picking experience with the team.
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His Excellency, Mr. Mukai Kenichiro, Ambassador of Japan to the State of Kuwait, learned about the hibakujumoku on a recent visit to Hiroshima. We hope that one day, Kuwait will have its very own hibakujumoku sapling.
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Executive Director of UNITAR, Ms. Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, met the hibakujumoku during her trip to Japan.
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We wish to thank the Dunedin Botanic Garden and the unwavering support of Lee Vallance in New Zealand, for the wonderful work they are doing. We are happy to present some of the planting initiatives from seeds donated to New Zealand in 2017. Click here to read about it.
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An extensive piece on the history and mission of GLH, by Patrick Parr for The Japan Times.
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Organized by Dr. Gerardo Avalos, main campus planting ceremony at the University of Costa Rica. Click here to see more.
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Dr. Susan Ott and the other wonderful volunteers at the Seattle Japanese Garden with GLH coordinator Nassrine Azimi by Garden's Ginko tree offered in 2020. Click here for more.
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Moving gathering around the GLH sapling at St Mary’s Church, Godmanchester. Attached is a photo of poster and coverage by a local media, including two local radio interviews with Roger Leivers. Click here for more.
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Lecture by GLH coordinator NA for San Diego Botanical Garden docents and volunteers. Media coverage on the ceremony hosted by GLH regional hub at the San Diego Botanic Garden marking August 6. Click here to see more.
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Testimony from Nagasaki Survivor, Hiroko Miyahara. Read in original Japanese and in English (translated by her granddaughter, Yukino Perona). Also covered by the Nagasaki Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Kanagawa Shimbun. Photo below includes planting of GLH sapling in August 2013 at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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Short essay in Hiroshima's Chugoku Shimbun, written by GLH coordinator Dr. Nassrine Azimi.
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We are honored to announce that the University of Melbourne is now the GLH Regional Hub for Oceania. We would like to thank the devoted Virginia McNally for her unwavering support. Click here to read more.
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It is with great pleasure that we welcome the University of Costa Rica as the GLH Regional Hub for Latin America. We are especially thankful to Dr. Gerardo Avalos, without whose passion and commitment to the hibakujumoku this milestone would not be possible. Click here to read more.
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We are delighted to announce that the University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica has joined the GLH family as our 150th partner! Click here to read more.
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A gingko seed was planted on the site of the Battle of Waterloo! Click here to read more.
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Beautiful article (Japanese) in The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, by Toru Shikoda. Read translated text (English) here.
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Saplings of hibakujumoku donated by GLH to United Nations Headquarters were planted on May 5, 2025. Click here to read more. Thanks to our partners at San Diego Botanical Garden for sending the saplings to NYC. Photos of the persimmon journey here!
GLH Regional Seed Hubs
San Diego Botanic Garden (SDBG) in San Diego, California
College of Agriculture, Food & Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) in Northern Ireland
We are delighted that the SDBG and CAFRE have agreed to become GLH regional seed hubs. We hope their help will facilitate sharing A-bombed tree seeds with more partners in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America.
The Green Greetings Project was launched at the Chugoku Shikoku Hakuhodo market design department as a joint project supported by Chugoku Shimbun and other companies in Hiroshima on August 6, 2005. Click here to view the website.
See here for 2024-2025 Hibaku second-generation seeds availability for dispatch.
Latest Updates
Katholische Akademie des Bistums Fulda - October 2025
We would like to welcome our new partners, Katholische Akademie des Bistums Fulda, to the GLH family. In the beautiful green landscape of the diocese, the academy will plant the hibakujumoku as a reflection on war, violence, and the need for peaceful coexistence.
Botanical Garden of Tver State University - August 2025
A wonderful update and message from Dr. Yuri Naumtsev at the Botanical Garden of Tver State University:
"On August 6, 2014, at the first "Open Heart Day" in our Garden, a symbolic memorial planting of the first tree grown from seeds obtained from Hiroshima took place [...] It is even more symbolic that another Japanese girl, Hitomi, who came to Tver with her mother and father and whose life is just beginning, planted a small tree from Hiroshima with her own hands [...] Our dear friends, we are with you on this day and always! Unique trees from Hiroshima continue to live in our Garden and bring the idea of peace to all people who come to it."
Activities in Hiroshima - July 2025
Short essay in Hiroshima's Chugoku Shimbun, written by GLH coordinator Dr. Nassrine Azimi.
School of Biology, University of Costa Rica - Regional Hub - July 2025
It is with great pleasure that we welcome the University of Costa Rica as the GLH Regional Hub for Central and Latin America. We are especially thankful to Dr. Gerardo Avalos without whose passion and commitment to the hibakujumoku this milestone would not be possible. We are looking forward to collaborating with him and his team to spread the message of peace and resilience with more partners in Latin America, which can pride itself in the Treaty of Tratelolco, safeguarding the region as a nuclear-weapon-free zone. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki trees will surely thrive happily there.
Batsford Arboretum - July 2025
On July 22, Mr. Nobuyuki Fujioka visited GLH to give an update on Hiroshima Gingko trees growing in the Batsford Arboretum, not far from where he lives. Ginkgo seeds were donated to Batsford Arboretum by GLH in 2015, thanks to the efforts of Hideko Yamada, one of our original pillars. We were thrilled to find that nine Gingko trees are now growing healthily, together in a grove, at the Arboretum.
Municipality of Poertschach am Woerthersee - July 2025
We have received an updated photo of the plaque!
"World without Wars and without Violence” (contact Tiziana Volta) & PEFC Italy (contact Antonio Brunori, Secretary-General) - June 2025
Our partner in Italy, Prof. Antonio Brunori and other members of PFEC including Marco Bussone, Ana Belén Noriega, and Makiko Horio came to Hiroshima on May 14. We presented Antonio to master gardener Chikara Horiguchi—and soon they became best friends, despite the language barrier—language of trees truly universal! We also learned so much from Antonio, whose passion for and knowledge about trees impressive, and are looking forward to more cooperation in the future around the hibakujumoku. Attached press release from PEFC in response to the earlier awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, including information on their activities related to the hibakujumoku seeds and second-generation saplings. Thanks to the passion and dedication of Antonio and Tiziana Volta, as well as their many colleagues and associates, 49 trees from GLH seeds have been "adopted" all over Italy to date.
The Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva - May 2025
Our partners at the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques (CJB) in Geneva have sent an update of three of the Ginko biloba, which have germinated and are now growing in their experimental greenhouses. Pictured right are the saplings, as well as Head Gardener, Nicolas Freyre receiving the most recent delivery of seeds. Thank you to Diane Bacher for sharing this update with us.
Davidson College - April 2025
Shared by our partners Dr. Kristi Multhaup and Dr. Susana Wagdymar at Davidson College: images are from Earth Day 2024, during which a planting ceremony was held for eight ginkgo saplings. Staff, students, and the community attended, representing a variety of disciplines.
It was a true liberal arts college celebration that included social sciences (historical context of the Hiroshima bombing), natural sciences (facts about gingko trees), humanities (poetry reading in both Japanese and English), and the arts (string piece with context provided by the orchestra director). We also included crafts, with paper crane folding to offer decorations on the ropes around each sapling and/or for participants to take with them.
– Kristi Multhaup, Professor of Psychology
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria - February 2025
2024 marks the first time that the only Eucalyptus hibakujumoku—located on the grounds of Hiroshima Castle—gave fruit, which were collected and sent to our partners in Australia. While no seeds were found, we will all persevere and try again next year.
(Pictured from left to right in group photo: Dermot Molloy, Senior Curator Horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne; Virginia McNally, System Garden Curator and Arborist at The University of Melbourne; and Jo Brennan, Horticulturalist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne)
Our stately Eucalyptus hibakujumoku, sketched and kindly gifted by Mr. Peter Sparber of Philadelphia.