Sentences with phrase «by rainforest in»

Anantara Spa has treatment rooms designed as your own private enclave, surrounded by a rainforest in a cliff - side setting.

Over 100 acres surrounded by rainforest in a private valley with crystal clear creeks, swimming holes and waterfalls.

Live the intensity of night gliding in incredible zip lines surrounded by the starry sky, drive by the rainforest in amphibious vehicles, through mysterious caverns and dive into the refreshing waters of an underground river.

Not exact matches

They are surrounded by one of the most diverse and interesting landscapes in the world, ranging from rainforests to vast plains.

Lying on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, the one - time backwater was transformed by an economic boom as the winding down of the conflict and a spike in commodity prices drew oil companies and multinational agricultural interests to areas that were previously off limits.

For example, who really notices that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by 25 per cent since the middle of the nineteenth century (as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, along with destruction of rainforests)?

We already know of the interconnected life patterns whereby oxygen generated by rainforests nourishes all the earth, or where water falling in northern mountains means green gardens in southern California.

You've heard of the infamous Africanized Killer Bees — we've turned the tables on these prolific honey producers, which are actually the predominant bee species in the rainforests of Costa Rica, by tapping into their golden harvest to produce BeeSting Honey N» Habanero Pepper Sauce.

Others are more exotic, grown in the rainforests of Peru and picked by Amazonian warriors (okay, maybe not quite).

The Açai Palm Trees flourish in the lush rainforests that are fed by the mighty Amazon River.

I believe this is a farm or group of farms, certified by Rainforest Alliance, in the big Las Lajas cooperative.

Founded in 1987, the Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land - use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.

The Rainforest Alliance certified beverage marks another step in McDonald's journey to transform its coffee business in the UK by offering freshly - ground, sustainably - sourced coffee at affordable prices.

In nature, it grows as an «understorey» species, shaded by the rainforest canopy.

The Rainforest Alliance will continue its commitment to reduce the effects of climate change by building climate resilience in some of the world's most vulnerable regions through forest conservation and sustainable agriculture.

This wastewater treatment system in this video, constructed for a Rainforest Alliance CertifiedTM coffee cooperative by our agricultural trainer in Rwanda, demonstrates how responsible water practices support the health and well - being of surrounding communities.

(Updated) Finca Platanillo in San Marcos, western Guatemala is the first coffee farm to be verified by Rainforest Alliance (RA) for compliance with the Climate Module of the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN, the standards - setting organization for RA).

To this day Sambazon is the ONLY Fair Trade Certified açaí (which is a lot more in depth and different than 1 % For the Planet and many pay to play certifications other brands have), and is the only vertically integrated company on the market, ensuring the highest quality, and premium açaí out there, and has protected millions of acres of Amazon Rainforest to this day, by providing 20,000 family farmers with employment from sustainable harvesting of açaí fruit.

The organic palm fruit oil we use in all MELT products is sourced from Colombia (South America) and certified by the RSPO, Fair Trade USA and the Rainforest Alliance (www.rspo.org, www.fairtradeuse.org, www.rainforest-alliance.org).

Eventually, we pass a sign on the right side of the road that says «Kitabi Tea Factory,» and I bolt upright in my seat — was this the Kitabi Tea Factory, an estate and tea processing facility that has been certified to the Rainforest Alliance's agriculture standard since 2011, and whose audit report I had, by chance, just included in a new analysis of tea farm improvements?

ASOCUCH is one of 17 local NGOs working in partnership with the Rainforest Alliance to arrest Guatemala's rampant deforestation crisis by strengthening community forest management, with the support of USAID.

Founded in 1995 by Helen Russell and Brooke McDonnell, Equator has a focus on sustainability, with over half of their coffees being certified Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, or some combination of all three.

We learned that the Haida nation's strict cultural forestry regulations — derived from Yah» guudang — gave Taan Forest a huge advantage in achieving Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, the stringent standard used by Rainforest Alliance.

The company, which manages nearly 300,000 acres (119,200 ha) in the Amazonian forest reserve of Bajo Paragua, has been certified by the Rainforest Alliance to Forest Stewardship Council standards since 1999.

There are five certified organic varieties in this line (update: as of 2011, after being acquired by Smuckers, there are only three in the line, neither is Rainforest Alliance certified).

The organic palm fruit oil we use in all MELT products is sourced from Colombia (South America) and certified Fair Trade / Ecosocial by the RSPO, Fair Trade USA and Rainforest Alliance (www.rspo.org, www.fairtradeuse.org, www.rainforest-alliance.org).

The Angel Sandoval concession is one of the first and largest businesses in Bolivia to become FSC - certified by the Rainforest Alliance.

The joint initiative, called the Rainforest Alliance - Olam Partnership for Livelihoods & Landscapes in Western Ghana, aims to conserve the cocoa forest landscape and sustain the agricultural livelihoods of communities around the Sui River, Suhuma, Tano Ehuro and Santomang Forest Reserves — a region where forests are particularly threatened by cooca production.

All cinnamon from Rainforest Alliance Certified cinnamon farms in Kerinci is sent back to a training center run by Cassia Co-Op, an Indonesian cinnamon exporter whose European branch markets and distributes cinnamon to an international base of customers.

Participate in audits on the Rainforest Alliance Standard conducted by CBs on a regular basis, collecting inputs to strengthen the certification program;

Thanks to the Robert W. Wilson Innovation Fund, the Rainforest Alliance undertakes efforts across the globe that expand our scope of impact by delivering greater value to our stakeholders and creating more substantial benefits in the ecosystems and communities where we work.

Under this new cocoa sourcing program, a company can claim on product packaging that Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa is sourced for a particular brand if the volume of cocoa purchased by their supply chain from certified farms matches the volume of cocoa used in the manufacturing of that specific brand.

The sustainability efforts of Selva Negra are extensive and well - known, the farm has long been Rainforest Alliance certified, and the coffee has been well - represented in the U.S. by multiple roasters, including Allegro / Whole Foods.

A 2015 study co-authored by the Rainforest Alliance established that the deforestation rate in the Forest Stewardship Council - certified community forestry concessions was nearly zero, as compared to an annual deforestation rate of 1.2 percent in the MBR overall and 5.5 percent in the reserve's buffer zones.

In mid-December 2012, Caribou Coffee Co., the first U.S. major coffee company to source all its beans from Rainforest Alliance certified farms, was acquired by the Joh.

Yet in response to my post regarding the weakening of Criterion 2.8 for coffee farms, a Rainforest Alliance representative stated: «The current criterion 2.8 has not been implemented fully by farms and hence has not been effective in terms of delivering the objective of providing an agroforestry framework that balances both ecosystem services of trees with profitable production scenarios.»

Utz — which entered cocoa certification in 2007 — overtook Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance as the largest cocoa certifier by 2011.

In addition, 100 percent of the espresso served by McDonald's Canada is sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms.

The assessment will be conducted by the Rainforest Alliance and will cover ten of Musim Mas Group's Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certified mills in Indonesia.

As I noted in the previous post, the investment in technical assistance to farmers builds on the commitment to purchase increasing amounts of certified coffee, primarily from farms certified by Rainforest Alliance.

Yet tea - industry veteran Giri Kadurugamuwa, who heads the Rainforest Alliance's ground operations in Sri Lanka, has already trained more than 30,000 tea farmers since 2012; he is quite unfazed by the additional 60,000 smallholder farmers slated for training in the near future.

The initiative was founded by Agropalma, DAABON, Greenpeace, WWF, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) in 2014 and remains the initiative that sets the highest benchmark for independently verified and truly responsible palm oil.

Members of the Committee are not remunerated by the Rainforest Alliance in any way, do not have any material financial interest in any entity doing business with us, and are not involved with our certification or verification decision - making.

No director, officer, employee, or volunteer of the Rainforest Alliance who in good faith reports any action or suspected action taken by or within the Rainforest Alliance that he or she perceives to be illegal, fraudulent, or in violation of any adopted corporate policy shall suffer intimidation, harassment, discrimination or other retaliation or, in the case of employees, adverse employment consequences.

Although we believe that Director experience with certification and verification can be quite valuable, it is our policy that our Board not be dominated by Directors with an interest in Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ or verified operations.

The Rainforest Alliance has been working to strengthen the position of smallholder cocoa farmers since 2006 — both on the land and in the marketplace — by training them to conserve natural resources, increase productivity and secure decent living and working conditions.

Should any director, officer, employee, or volunteer of the Rainforest Alliance have a concern regarding any action or suspected action taken by or within the Rainforest Alliance that is illegal, fraudulent, or in violation of any adopted corporate policy, that person should immediately submit a complaint (a «Complaint») to the General Counsel.

Therefore, a package of Rainforest Alliance certified coffee, marketed as and believed by the consumer to contain 100 % RA - certified beans could conceivably only contain 81 % certified beans (if the roaster / retailer mixed in 10 % non-certified beans into a shipment from a producer that only contained 90 % certified beans, 90 % *.90 = 81 %).

A coffee farm that is part of the ProAves Cerulean Warbler Reserve in Santander, Colombia was recently certified by Rainforest Alliance (under the cooperative Asociación de Cafés Sostenibles de Santander).

Costa's green coffee beans are cultivated in farms certified by Rainforest Alliance.