How is cacao helping to preserve the Amazon Rainforest?
As real incomes remain stagnant or decline, farmers turn to environmentally and socially destructive practices such as cattle ranching, logging, and the cultivation of illicit drugs in order to make a living. That is why cacao is rapidly becoming a way of saving the rainforest. Since it is a shade grown crop, there is no destruction of rainforest. The organic cultivation of shade grown cacao, interspersed among other crops and / or planted in secondary forests is actually helping to regenerate the forest as the tree canopy provides much needed shade for other plants. Please refer to our Cocoa Conservation page for more information.
