The forests around the town of Tokorozawa, Japan (just north of Tokyo, in Saitama Prefecture), are set to become a protected area. The land is being sold to the Tokorozawa Project, funded in part by Studio Ghibli, and will consist of 8.6 acres (3.5 hectares) of land with about 7000 trees. Studio Ghibli being involved in creating a protective forest is not at all uncharacteristic if you know the themes behind some of its most famous films. Stories like Princess Mononoke, and Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind have strong environmental messages, showing exactly where Miyazaki and Ghibli stand on the subject.