Brazil’s Amazon has lost nearly 20% of its forest cover in the last fifty years, which is almost three hundred thousand square miles. The harvesting of valuable products, such as vanilla beans, Brazil nuts, and cacao, has negatively impacted this hotbed of biodiversity.
Enter Harper Macaw—yes, the elegant chocolate bar brand you may have spied at Dean & DeLuca or Whole Foods. Rather than merely taking the beans they need and leaving the land as is, they practice cacao agroforestry and replant the area, putting large-scale tropical reforestation into practice. They hope this approach can save Brazil’s cacao economy as well as the region itself.
