Acai Berry Environmental Awareness
RioLife Acai Berry isn't just about enhancing your life (although it definitely will!), it has a purpose. Our roots stretch all the way back to the Amazon, home to one-third of the world's species of plant and animal life. We realise that everyone we know can help to promote the preservation of this beautiful and important region through consuming Acai Berry, so our mission begins by sharing Acai with Australia.
The Acai berries, which have been prized for hundreds of years by Brazilian natives for their ability to provide a sense of strength, energy and a high nutritional content, are one of a few Brazilian exports that can directly protect the rainforest. Every time someone chows down on some Acai it provides a little more income for the Amazon locals, proving that they don't need to chop down trees to survive, more importantly that they must preserve the trees to sustain that income! How cool is that?!?
Amazon Friendly
RioLife is the only Australian company that guarantees 1% of all sales go to community projects in the Amazon. Through the the Amazon Friendly program we support the registered charity ACAIMU in conjunction with Nufruits who founded the program. Through the Amazon Friendly program we help fund the school that was specifically built for the children of the workers at the Acai Berry plantation, these children would otherwise would be unable to access quality education. The donations help fund teachers wages, new books and teaching materials. Know that where ever you see the Amazon Friendly logo you can be assured your purchases are helping local Amazonian communities. For more information www.amazon-friendly.org
Sourcing the Best Acai Berry in the world!
RioLife Acai Berry is wild harvested, and we would never want anyone using or ingesting pesticides or anything artificial… lucky there are NONE used! PLUS it is an almost non-polluting industry. Makes you want some more huh?
Using Acai as a vehicle to promote further sustainability, RioLife has teamed up with international organisations dedicated to developing cooperation and positive exchange in the Amazon and beyond. The most important of these is Fruits of the Amazon, a business founded in New Zealand and with operations in over 8 countries, which assists RioLife in sourcing the best Acai Berry in the world. Fruits of the Amazon has invested heavily in the Acai Berry business in Brazil, and the island from which RioLife Acai is wild harvested and packed has now had a school built on it for the 160 local children. This Acai Berry business provides an essential, environmentally sustainable, income for the locals.
Helping the Environment
Unlike most other industries in the Amazon basin, the harvesting of açaí berries doesn’t involve the destruction of the precious trees that make this region so unique, harbour a plethora of wildlife and act as the lungs of the earth, continuously converting carbon dioxide back into life-giving oxygen for all of us.
In fact, the harvesting of açaí is one of only a handful of sustainable commercial initiatives identified by Greenpeace as having the capacity to make a meaningful difference to the deforestation of the region.
It’s a win-win-win situation. The jungle is protected from land clearing, the locals earn an income, and here in Australia we get to enjoy antioxidant-rich açaí berries safe in the knowledge that we’re contributing to the health and sustainability of the Amazon
RioLife's goal is to be an essential lifestyle brand for healthy living and sustainability. RioLife is a fantastic new way for you, the Brazilian locals, and the Amazon rainforest to reap the benefits of the truly magical fruit Acai, while protecting and enhancing the future for all.
