Aiming to become "The World's Best Firefly City"

Since the domestically unprecedented establishment of the "Firefly Subsection" at the City Hall in 1992, the city of Kitakyushu has promoted the development of "a home for fireflies," a place environmentally friendly to fireflies as well as people, and made efforts in education and support for firefly protection and firefly raising activities on a grassroots level in local communities.

The city of Kitakyushu once experienced serious environmental pollution to the degree that the bay was even called the "sea of death." However, through cooperation between public officials, enterprises and citizens, the pollution has been reversed and now a beautiful natural environment where fireflies can live has been reestablished.

The city of Kitakyushu is carrying out a number of projects to share information about this achievement. Furthermore, the city is aiming to become a world leader in promoting environmental programs through establishing a comfortable living environment for people and fireflies, and further implementing activities to protect the environment.

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