Our charity partners, Cool Earth are an important part of our business and our customers. So much so we named our coffee after them. We take a look to see whats been happening in 2014.
Each purchase of Cool Earth Coffee triggers a donation that protects areas of Rainforest under threat from illegal logging and ranching. This year was a record year and saw some significant milestones and developments.
In 2014, Cool Earth reached a fantastic milestone: 100,000,000 trees have been saved. Placed end to end, these trees would reach around the earth 75 times. Cycling their length would be the same as doing the Tour de France 819 times.
It’s exclusive, organic, single origin, handmade and traceable right back to our partner villages. What more could you want? This chocolate has doubled local income for Ashaninka partners in Peru – earning far more than logging could ever pay.
No education leaves rainforest villages vulnerable to exploitation. Without the means to read the agreements pressed on them by loggers, how can villages know what they are committing themselves to? In 2014, Cool Earth equipped six rainforest schools with learning resources.
This project secured the long-term protection of 55,000 acres of Ecuadorian Chocó forest, one of the most endangered regions on the planet. This key tract of forest is forming a forest corridor to link more than 900,000 acres of protected rainforest, protecting the habitat of 33 species on the IUCN Red List, including the Great Green Macaw.
The Awajún people are northern Peru’s largest indigenous nation and are renowned for their fierce independence. With their forest under threat from oil and gold extraction they are once again being forced to defend their territory. Cool Earth are aiming to protect 56,000 acres of Awajún forest by outpricing forest destruction.
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