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.
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products, click here.
If you're interested in becoming an Associate, click here.
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