Raintree and the Rainforest

Producing the highest quality rainforest products needn't harm these amazing and endangered areas. Our fairly traded herbs are sustainably wild-harvested; any one area of the rainforest is never over harvested and left to naturally grow until ready to harvest from again.

The Amazon is the World’s largest rainforest. It is also the richest biological incubator on the planet. However, between 1991 and 2000, the Amazon’s total area of forest lost rose from 415,000 to 587,000 square kilometres because of deforestation. This large-scale forest loss and degradation of the Amazon was merely for the profit that it yields. However, these economic activities resulted in severe droughts in the years 2005, 2006 and 2010.

The Amazon Rainforest is huge. It covers over one billion acres and it has been uniquely described as the “Lungs of our Planet” because of how it serves the world by continually recycling carbon dioxide into pure oxygen. It provides over 3000 different types of fruits, only of which 200 are known in the western world. 121 prescription drugs currently sold all across the world come from plant-derived sources.

Rainforests once covered over 14% of the earth’s land surface but now it has been reduced to nearly 6%. It is expected that the remainder may disappear within decades. Every single day we are losing 137 plant, animal and various insect species due to rainforest deforestation. This amounts to nearly 50,000 species a year that are wiped out.

The preservation of the Amazon Rainforest is also one of our highest concerns. For this reason, sustainable harvesting methods of herbs is carefully observed to avoid depletion of diversity, quality and availability of various exquisite species. Thus, the herbs are handpicked by the indigenous people of the Amazon and are handled with the utmost care to preserve the delicate constituents.

Raintree products are of the highest possible quality and made without harming the precious jewel that is the Amazon Rainforest. When you buy our products you are helping not harming!