Valuable beautiful nature and a valuable beautiful historical building, and its environment are depended on a donation, and are bought, or the land is acquired by donation and bequest. It is a civic movement aiming at leaving this to the next generation by preserving, maintaining, managing and opening to the public.

THE National Trust begins from a British environmental preservation organization. In order to keep beautiful nature and a beautiful scene eternally, it is the organization who is managing by becoming the owner. The talk in which the Peter rabbit's real parent and raise in basic wages TORIKUSU POTA bought land personally in order to keep the beautiful scenery of the Lake District, and they left the maintenance management to National Trust is famous. Moreover, it was contributed for National Trust in order for Prime Minister Churchill to keep the figure as it is of the house loved while in life. Generally it is widely opened to the public now including the member of National Trust. In Japan, the activity came to be widely known for the newspaper article "The nature destroyed" of "Ofutsu Jiro" in 1964. Japan National Trust for Cultural and Natural Heritage Conservation was founded by making THE National Trust of Britain into a model also in Japan in December, 1968. Based on it, the Association of National Trust in Japan got the approval from the Environment Agency, and was founded in September, 1992. The area of the National Trust ground with which it bought at the National Trust organizations all over the country, and the preservation contract is contracted has amounted to about 1800ha. Those who are referred to as that he also wants to participate in National Trust need to go to the homepage of Japan National Trust for Cultural and Natural Heritage Conservation.