Mother's Day Gift Guide That Doesn't Spoil Mother Nature From The Rainforest Alliance
Mother’s Day
is the one day of the year when spoiling your mum is a must. It’s your chance
to say thank you for everything she’s done for you over the years. With just
over a week to go, here’s how to spoil your mum this Mother’s Day without spoiling
Mother Nature the Rainforest Alliance way…
Breakfast in
bed…After a well-deserved lie-in, take your mum breakfast in bed. Make sure the
coffee, tea and juice has come from a Rainforest Alliance CertifiedTM farm. The
little green frog on the packaging - such as on Kenco coffee, PG tips or an
Innocent Smoothie – is your assurance that it was grown using methods that
protect forests, soils and waterways on farms that provide decent wages,
housing, education and health care to workers and their families.
Send a
card…Make sure your Mother’s Day card is made out of FSC certified paper.
Through certification and verification, the Rainforest Alliance provides forest
managers, farmers and tourism entrepreneurs with the tools to manage their land
responsibly — preventing deforestation and forest degradation, increasing
forest cover and conservation areas, and helping them generate the goods and
services upon which we all rely.
Make her put
her feet up…With a good book and a bar of chocolate. Sit your mum down with the
latest best seller printed on FSC certified paper, and let her indulge in her
favourite sweet treat. Farmed on over 18 million acres of tropical land, some
40 million people depend on cocoa for their livelihoods. Make sure the
chocolate you buy contains cocoa grown with respect for people, wildlife and
the environment. Check out our list of retailers offering certified chocolate
and other goodies.
Make the
Sunday lunch…Save carbon emissions and money by making a special Sunday lunch
at home. When selecting the perfect bottle of wine to complement your meal,
choose one that has a cork stopper, particularly if it’s certified by the
Rainforest Alliance to meet the environmental and social standards of the
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Mediterranean cork forests provide refuge for
the Iberian lynx and other endangered species and support local farmers who
sustainably harvest the cork bark without damaging the trees, leaving them
standing for future generations.
Take her for
afternoon tea…Us Brits love our tea; in fact in the UK we drink over 165
million cups of tea a day. Did you know that 100 million of these cups come
from tea gardens and estates that have achieved Rainforest Alliance
certification? That’s 60 per cent of all the tea consumed in the UK. So make
sure your mum’s favourite cuppa has a little green frog on it.
Do something
different…For those that want to do away with the traditional gifts why not get
your mum…a rainforest! Donate to Adopt-A-Rainforest through www.rainforest-alliance.org/aar
to support conservation programs run by the Rainforest Alliance’s partner
organisations in Latin America and give your mum a little slice of Mother
Nature!
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