the essential rainforest

Fine cacao needs healthy rainforests with varied plant life to help it withstand wind, heat and pests. Cacao's natural pollinators thrive only in the rainforest. Cacao trees yield the most when in their diverse natural habitat.

Some cacao growers in the Americas, along with the National Wildlife Federation and the Smithsonian, have discovered that by nurturing the conditions to grow the best cacao for chocolate, they help preserve some of the world's great rainforests as well as tropical wildlife.