One Bar : One Tree

Your Beni Wild Harvest begins in the origin of all cacao and the largest rainforest region in the world, the Amazon. By replanting trees in the Beni, your chocolate directly contributes to protecting a unique rainforest wilderness for future generations.

From the cacao producer, to you, our customer, all people involved in Original Beans find each other in the simple belief that what we consume, we must replenish.

New Forest

Cultivating wild cacao is a perfect way to maintain healthy wild forests while offering local people additional incomes. Your purchase of Beni Wild chocolate encourages locals to propagate wild cacao and protect surrounding rainforest. It helps to rejuvenate the ancient tradition of sustainable cacao harvest in the Beni.

Local Farmer

When the wild cacao fruits are ripe on the trees, indigenous cacao collectors venture into the forest, sometimes for weeks and by boat. Heat, humidity and thick swarms of mosquitoes fill the air. Like Northern mushroom collectors, the Beni cacaoteros will keep the precise locations of their wild cacao trees completely secret.

Rainforest Diversity

Made up of savannah, forest and waterways, the Beni hosts a world-unique archipelago of over 38 forest islands called ‘chocolatales’, chocolate islands. Here live jaguars and blue-throated Macaws – seen only in the Beni. Recent surveys indicate there are but three hundred pairs of these cacao seed couriers left in world.

Cocoa Beans

The Beni is one of the few places in the world where 100% wild cacao exists. Some Beni Wild trees may be as ancient as 200 years. Recent genetic analysis has revealed such distinctiveness in the Beni Wild that researchers put this original bean outside of the known taxonomy of criollo, forastero and trinitario cacao into a separate cluster, called Beniano.

Chocolate Lover

The Beni Wild beans are so small that making it into chocolate requires many adaptations on the machines. The final result is one of the most exclusive chocolate experiences in the world: the flavours of a wild cacao, plucked by hand from an ancient tree in one of the remotest corners of the Amazon.

One Bar : One Tree

Conservation in the Beni, Bolivia

The Conservation Challenge

New Trees Planted

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