HOW THE DESERT FEEDS THE FOREST

What links Saharan dust and ecosystems in the Amazon? The Amazon rainforest and the Sahara are two of the most different environments you could imagine. But scientists have identified an interesting connection between the world’s largest rainforest and the world’s…




RUNNING OUT OF WILDERNESS

20% of the world’s forests are a football field away from the edge. A new study of forest coverage has used data collected over 35 years to map the state of true wilderness on earth. The results are alarming. Nearly…




MEET THE CHOCOLATE GROWERS

Meet the cacao growers who with the help of the staff and customers of The Fuel Card Group are planting, cultivating, harvesting and fermenting their way to saving their rainforest.   Cacao, the key ingredient in chocolate, is the main…




CHOCOLATE: FROM BEAN TO BAR

NO RAINFOREST, NO CHOCOLATE Cacao is a rainforest tree and that’s where it grows best. It needs 2 metres of rain a year and a temperature between 21-32ºC. FOOD OF THE GODS Chocolate really is the “Food of the gods”…




Rainforests are not empty Edens

How The Fuel Card Group is supporting Forest Guardians Rainforests are incredible places to live: diverse, chaotic and full of more plants and animals than any other environment on earth. But for a long time, scientists have argued that humans…