About the Ezo Deer Leather We Use (more Trees LEATHER)

Leather that protects a sustainable forest environment

This is Ezo deer leather from Hokkaido, promoted by the general incorporated association more trees, represented by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Ezo deer, which inhabit the entirety of Hokkaido, have a strong reproductive capacity and have increased to the point of destroying the forest's vegetation. As a result, more than 100,000 deer have been culled annually in recent years.

Even though venison has gained recognition as gibier in recent years, unlike livestock, wild deer have fluctuating supply, and there are many challenges in processing, distribution, and sales, making effective utilization difficult to advance.
Especially for leather, most of it is discarded without effective use due to reasons such as shotgun pellet marks, difficulty in processing, and natural wounds.
Currently, 98% of the deerskin distributed in Japan is imported from deer farms in China, New Zealand, Australia, and other countries.
Ezo deer leather requires tanning from scratch, which is costly and labor-intensive, and production is unstable, making mass production difficult.

Furthermore, if it is difficult to bring culled deer back or transport them to a meat processing plant, it is permitted to bury them as they are. However, if bears scent them, they will dig up even very deep holes. The recent increase in bear sightings across Japan is not unrelated to the increase in deer and the lack of progress in their effective utilization.

As humans who, for our own convenience, eliminated our natural predator, the wolf, don't we have a responsibility to not waste the lives of the Ezo deer, a blessing from Hokkaido's vast nature, but to respect them and use them carefully until the very end?
With that in mind, we came up with the idea of using Ezo deer leather for speakers.
To protect a sustainable forest environment, and with gratitude for the lives of the Ezo deer, we create these speakers and expand the new possibilities of Ezo deer leather.

Since Ezo deer are wild animals that roam the mountains and fields, their leather contains many natural scratches, wrinkles, and blemishes.
Ezo deer leather is not only durable but also has many air pockets between its fibers, giving it a unique softness and excellent sound absorption. Its matte, deep texture is also appealing. Through vegetable tanning, its color and luster deepen with age.
(A portion of the sales will be used for more Trees' forest conservation activities.)