Check the article listings on the Acai Berry and Acai Berry products. Title after title of articles espousing the health benefits and nutritional value of this amazing new berry thats gathered in the Amazon rain forest in Brazil. So why did it take so long for such a wonderful fruit to finally make its way to market? The Acai Berry Grows In the Lungs Of the Planet The reason that the acai berry is so new to the consumer market is that for some years now efforts have been on to find renewable sources of income in the rain forests of the planet. You see, the planets rain forests are essentially its lungs. Western Demand For Hardwoods and Global Warming For generations, indigenous peoples have made their livings as hunters, gatherers and simple traders of natural products that could be found in these rain forests. However; beginning in the early part of the 1900s western societies began use more exotic hardwoods in their homes. Who Will Guard and Protect the Rain Forests? These indigenous peoples in return began to abandon their traditional lifestyles to take on more lucrative jobs in the hardwood timber industry. The result is that the rain forests were being left unprotected, cut down and global warming was increased. The Acai Berry Brings Native Protectors Back To The Forest Gathering the Acai Berry is one of the new ways that have been developed where by native peoples can return to protecting and living off the rain forest and not have to starve while doing it. By gathering and selling the Acai Berries the trees stay standing and they earn a good income. Working To Come Up With Viable Solutions To Global Warming Governments of Western countries have learned that the Amazon rain forest is just too big and wild to police or buy up. Thus, the only chance it has of being protected is to entice the native peoples who live there to engage in renewable economic activities like gathering Acai Berries. Activities that encourage them to also value, watch over and protect the rain forests of the planet from illegal logging and strip mining activities.
Please Rate this Article 5 out of 54 out of 53 out of 52 out of 51 out of 5
Not yet Rated
