Rainforest Commitment

Natures Remedies, advocates the preservation of rainforests by promoting the use and creating consumer markets for these sustainable and renewable rainforest resources and products with special emphasis on it's plants that can contribute to health and well being.  By creating a market demand and income from sustainably harvested rainforest resources, we are contributing to the provision of a morally and ecologically balanced relationship that is not only supportive of the rainforest and monetary needs of the indigenous peoples of the rainforest, but can compete financially with other unsustainable sources of income offered by timber companies and agricultural concerns.

Indigenous people's empirical plant knowledge is now thought by many to be the Amazon's new gold.  This untold wealth of the indigenous plants are the true wealth of the rainforest - not the trees.  Rich in beneficial nutrients, phytochemicals and active constituents, the rainforest Indians and Indigenous people have used them for centuries for their survival, health and well-being.  Yet extracting these secrets from the jungles is no easy task and sadly, this state of affairs may not last long enough into the future for man to unlock all their secrets.  Tragically, rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6%.  In less than 50 years, more than half of the world's tropical rainforests have fallen victim to fire and the chain saw and the rate of destruction is still accelerating.  Unbelievably, over 200,000 acres of rainforest are burned every day in the world.  That is over 150 acres lost every minute of every day.  Experts estimate that at the current rate of destruction, the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.  Experts also estimate that we are losing 130 species of plants, animals and insects every single day as they become extinct from the loss of rainforest land and habitats.  How many possible cures to devastating diseases have we already lost?

We hope you will join us and others in supporting rainforest conservation and preservation to stop this tide of destruction.  Raising consciousness of the problems is simply not enough.  You as a consumer do have power and it can be put to good use.  We hope you will see ways in which you as an individual can positively affect your life and health while positively affecting the rainforest.

Thank you for your support!