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Rainforest Projects
Amazon Herb Company returns 10% of its
profits by supporting a variety of special projects and issues that directly
impact the Rainforest. Here are some of the causes the company supports
to date:
Manos de la Tierra
(Hands of the Earth) is a Rainforest co-op that provides a way for tribal
women to earn money from their crafts and funnel money back to their communities.
The women create handicrafts -- pottery, needlepoint, jewelry, textiles
and painted cloth -- that Amazon Herb Company buys at a fair market price
to resell in the US and abroad. This generates awareness about the indigenous
crafts as well as provides a way of preserving the traditions, culture
and heritage of Rainforest villages and peoples.
Amazon Herb Ecological Preserve
Amazon Herb Company's own private 4000 acre natural botanical reserve
in the heart of the Peruvian Rainforest that was established to protect
it from logging and other development. The reserve comes complete with
a medicine trail for observing the botanicals growing in the wild. Amazon
Herb Company supports a group of tribal families who live there to oversee
the Reserve.
Amazon Herb Land Preservation
Program
was established to help buy and preserve land in the Amazon Herb Ecological
Reserve. Currently, the Land Preservation Program is negotiating with
the Peruvian government to acquire the rights to 1,000 acres of land along
the Rio Ucayali. Through the Company's Associate deed program, Amazon
Herb Company Associates who achieve a certain level are recognized for
their contrbution by being honored with one-acre deeds from its land acquisition
efforts.
Amazon Herb Rainforest Expedition
is a vital prgram that fosters cultural exchange between the Amazon Herb
Company Associates and the indigenous people of Peru. The Company underwrites
the whole trip for everyone as it believes the interaction between cultures
will inspire a genuine spirit of unity and cooperation to build a stronger
future for the planet.
Amazon Herb Company also continually supports
the following programs:
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Rainforest Conservation
Fund
supports the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo 800,000-acre reserve in the Peruvian
Amazon and helps the native people develop income streams by finding
markets for their local species of fruits.
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Rainforest Preservation
Foundation
has placed more than 8 million acres of Brazilian Rainforest in trust.
They work with the village communities to improve farming and gathering
methods so that they can benefit from the Rainforest without destroying
it.
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Nonprofit
Organizations established
by Amazon Herb Company
Amazon Herb Company has officially incorporated
the following companies in the State of Florida as nonprofit organizations
to carry out its Rainforest preservation efforts:
Rainforest Rescue Fund
was organized to provide assistance to tribal communities in Peru and
Brazil as follows:
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provide infrastructure by
funding new water wells and solar technology;
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offer legal assistance in
obtaining deeds and rights to tribal land;
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award scholarships and other
educational opportunities to the children of indigenous communities;
and
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maintain a reserve fund for
use in disaster relief situations in the Rainforest.
Amazon Herb Research Education Foundation
was formed to provide herbs and protocols for clinical outcome studies
to foundations, universities, hospitals and other research centers.
It also has been building a database wherein knowledge of botanicals
from South America's native shamans and curanderous is collected and
preserved.
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Join
Amazon Herb Company's Mission
Whether you participate as a customer
or as an Associate eco-entrepreneur, you become part of a mission that
benefits everyone -- the consumer who gains life-giving support from
the Rainforest herbs, the tribal communities who have found a living
without compromising their Rainforest land, and the future generations
who get to enjoy a planet saved from destruction.
To check out our products, click
here.
If you're interested in becoming an Associate, click
here.
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