Part 1: The Disappearing Rainforests | Part 2: The Wealth of the Rainforest
Part 3: Rainforest Action
Experts agree that by leaving the rainforests intact and harvesting its
nuts, fruits, oil-producing plants, and medicinal plants, it has more
economic value than if they were cut down for cattle grazing or timber.
Rainforest converted to cattle operations yields the land owner $60 per
acre and if timber is harvested, the land is worth $400 per acre.
However, if these renewable and sustainable resources are harvested,
the land will yield the land owner $2,400 per acre.
If managed properly, the rainforest can provide the world with these
natural resources on a perpetual basis. Promoting these sustainable and
renewable sources could stop the Rainforest destruction. By creating a
new source of income harvesting the medicinal plants, fruits nuts, oil
and other sustainable resources, the rainforests is be more valuable
alive than cut and burned. Dagoba uses some Rainforest nuts, all
sustainably harvested, as a way of doing our part.
Sufficient demand of sustainable and ecologically harvested Rainforest
products is necessary for preservation efforts to succeed. Purchasing
sustainable rainforest products - like Dagoba Organic Chocolate - can
effect positive change by creating a market for these products while
supporting the native people's economy and provides the economic
solution and alternative to cutting the forest just for the value of
its timber.