Preserving over 2000 Acres of AMAZON AÇAI FOREST We now more then ever before need to work closely with local communities to preserve our precious rainforests. This is why what we are doing is SO IMPORTANT.
Only Amazonia Purpleberry being FAIR TRADE ensures REAL FINANCIAL INCENTIVE to preserve some of the 6.1 million acres of Açaí forests. Simply the more Purpleberry we sell the more Açaí forest we can keep standing. Our efforts (and yours!) are currently protecting over 2000 acres of wild Açaí forest simply through the sales of AMAZONIA products. We want to increase this protected area more and more. So by supporting us you?re directly aiding in the preservation of our beautiful Amazon rainforest!
WE ALSO DONATE over and above Fair Trade standards to the Sustainable Amazon Project. This is a public and private collaboration promoting lasting SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.
Unique to our company we also support the actual individual worker instead of purchasing our berries from large markets. This one effort alone positivly affects the livelihood of local families directly. In addition all by-products (such as seeds) are further recycled and sold as bracelets where 100% of sales are contributed back to local community projects. Keep your eye out for our Fair Trade Bracelets. Amazingly for every tonne of Açaí berry freeze dried produced there is 20 tones of left over seeds which is now being used as an alternative building material. Crushed into bricks these materials are building homes and other community projects rather than reverting back to local forest timbers!
FAIR TRADE IS THE FUTURE FOR THE AMAZON SURVIVAL We believe every hard working person deserves to have access to essentials, and FAIR TRADE wages guarantee this. AMAZONIA has recently become THE FIRST EVER CERTIFIED FAIR TRADE source of Açaí. We now set the standard for the entire Açaí industry and with your support will ensure ALL Açaí stays fair trade protected. NOW THIS IS REAL BUSINESS, BUSINESS THAT BENEFITS EVERYONE. We want a better world and have worked very hard to ensure all ethical standards are met and continuously improved. As a natural progression we have attracted a caring and devoted team that is helping our growth.
FAIR TRADE practices ensure the protection of the native trees from loggers and cattle farmers. In essence, locals are paid to preserve the precious Amazon.
OUR ETHICS MAKE US WHO WE ARE 
We at Amazonia have an underlying mission to achieve through business. We simply want to show how powerful conscious business can be, with your support we actively working on change within the Health industry, Medical industry, Acai industry and business as a whole. We are passionate and determined to set an example and provide our customers with a product that uplifts and invigorates. We know sustainable superfoods will be the basis for all treatment of the most prevalent diseases that plague western culture.?>ml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> AMAZONIA is setting an example that conscious business is more powerful and effective than any dollar-driven industry. If ever there were a message we truly want to yell to every corner of the globe it would be “Eat organically and naturally, do well by others and always remember you are a blue print of what you eat!"
Thank you so much, we are an open minded bunch and any feedback, suggestions and encouragement is so appreciated.
About Amazonia and our Positive AMAZON Initiatives  We love our work and helping others is something that we are absolutely passionate about! Amazonia is a new generation of conscious business, which means we are always looking for ways to improve conditions in the Amazon, bring great health products to our customers and work only with positive driven organisations. We are a young company (but growing larger everyday) our company is already doing some amazing things.
Please scroll down to find out what the boys at Amazonia have been up too and are currently involved in! Thank You for your ongoing support.
Amazonia Supporting the CASA DA Hospital

Returning from our Annual trip the Amazon (Macapa region) in Brazil to over view our ethical efforts and processing, Dwayne and Chris got up to their elbows in fresh Acai, visited schools and donated $7500 US dollars to the CASA DA Hospital! We continue to donate over fair trade wages to the Sustainability Amazon Partnership to continuly improve community amenities within this precious region our Acai comes from. 'Miguel' (in the white shirt) is our operations manager in the Amazon and was just awarded "Local Citizen Of The Year" for his positive work in the Macapa region. It is imperative for us to have caring people like Miguel on the ground at our source.
Sea Sheppard

The crew of Sea Sheppard are highly devoted to the protection of our marine cousins and the waters they live in. Actively compromising the operations of whaling ships and ANY threat to the worlds precious marine environment, we need these guys healthy and full of vigor for every mission. Very recently AMAZONIA donated 24 Cartons of our Acai puree to the crew of SEA SHEPARD to keep them on their toes before they sailed away on their next trip. Amazonia supports and thanks the crew of Sea Sheppard for their constant & devoted stance against whaling and ocean mistreatment efforts of our world. On each side of the crew, Cameron Barker (Amazonia WA Manger) and Gene Shafer (WA Sales Representative) are there to hand over the gift.
Supporting Local Women Cooperatives

The ladies in Macapa hand make our Acai jewelry in wonderful cooperatives. When we visited them there was lots of laughing and music; Dwayne couldn’t help but bring back many great looking bracelets that the women created that day! Amazonia purchases 1000's of these bracelets and 100% of profits go directly back to these women in the MIIB groups. As well as being a great way to use the leftover seed from our Açaí powder, this initiative provides further funding to the ladies of these gatherings. Look out for their jewelry soon, as we will be selling them through health food stores as well as providing them with future purchases of Purpleberries…then you can look as cool as us wearing one!
Amazonia Aids in Local School Funding
 Creativity plays a huge role in any kids growth (or adults) Through our Sustainable Amazon Partnership, Amazonia is helping fund the Escola Estadual Igarape da Fortaleza school's new arts centre. Our partnership is ongoing and in the future we're looking forward to being more and more involved community projects.
Seed Instead of Wood!

Did you know that for every tonne of our delicious freeze dried powder there's 20 tonnes of leftover seed? Well now instead of just dumping the seed the locals of Macapa use the seed as the burning material in their furnaces instead of wood! This alternative fuel source is replacing timber and is demonstrating to locals that instead of trees they can use this, otherwise, Açaí bi-product!
Our Very Own Acai Facility

Acai berries begin too breakdown shortly after picking and this is why we need to get them washed, de-pulped and snapped frozen as QUICK as possible to save all those amazing natural nutrients. We have our very own facility in Macapa, so when the berries are picked, they're stripped into baskets and able to reach our facility quickly for snap freezing, ready for frozen transport. This is one of the most important things allowing us to guarantee the freshest Açaí direct to you. Happy to see everything was still super hygienic, workers were happy and everything was running smooth we celebrated by, well…eating more Acai.
Where do we source our Purpleberries? We source our Acai from the Amazon Rainforests around Macapa (North of Belem) where Acai is plentiful ensuring locals are always able to afford Acai through prices unaffected by increased demand. Belem is the hub for most of Brazil’s Açaí exportation where prices are beginning to rise due too high demand and increased exportation, creating a terrible situation where locals are unable to afford any Açaí. Amazonia only source Açaí from the Macapa region where Açaí is plentiful and price unaffected.
The growing Açaí market can provide hope to the Amazon region where devastated land has more value than the biosocial diverse pristine forest. Açaí also has the potential to revert the deforestation trend by offering economic incentives along the lines of a non-timber product with high socioeconomic value. It is a direct response to cattle-ranching, by far the economic activity which has devastated over 60 million hectares (150 million acres) of rainforest and creates roughly 200,000 jobs where 8 million are needed. In the same vicious cycle is logging, that finances cattle ranching and contributes to opening roads throughout the forest. 90% all logging in the Amazon is clandestine and illegal. (Retrieved from Sustainable Açaí Project, 2008-11)
YOUR NATURAL BODY IS THE ONLY THING THAT WILL HEAL, ENERGISE AND REVITALISE you, we can only aid in this process.
CERTIFIED ORGANIC & CERTIFIED FAIR TRADE ACAI
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