Acai fruit demand may help save the rainforests: NewsTarget.com

The acai superfruit from the Amazon rainforest is shaping up to be one of the most potent antioxidants available to the health conscious. But not all acai is ethically equal, according to one distributor.

The Brazilian government estimates that the Amazon forest will have lost 25 percent of its original area by 2020. While this is a large problem for the acai, a change of that magnitude would be disastrous not only for the ecosystem of the region, but for the world's climate as well.

Large pieces of the Amazon rainforest have been disappearing for quite a while due to the practice of logging and unsustainable farming that leads to more logging. Cattle ranching and soybean farming are the two main industries for which trees are cleared.

Unless there are financial and social incentives to keep the Amazon rain forest standing, no amount of rules and regulations can stop the destruction of the home of superfoods like acai, according to officials. The growing demand for acai and other fruits like it could turn that around.

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